Tuesday, January 20, 2009

Panic in the Air as VIX Hits 55.38

The last hour could get very ugly...

4 comments:

Bill Luby said...

More evidence of panic as VIX continues to rise even after equities start to bounce

chris said...

Good call. The end of the day was an ugly one.

Anonymous said...

why do you think that the put / call ratio did not change much?

Bill Luby said...

That is a good question -- and I am not sure what the answer is.

It is possible that the P/C ratio was influenced by where we are in the options cycle.

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