VIX Spikes - But It's Been Worse

With the VIX spiking up to 39.59 just a moment ago, I thought it might be instructive to recap the top five VIX readings since 1990, the first year for which the CBOE has calculated VIX historical data:

Note that these readings are all dwarfed by the high of over 170 recorded by the VXO (‘old VIX’) on Black Monday 1987.

Comments

[Eric Fox:]

Nov VIX futures still only at 29.60, needs to go higher.

2008 Sep 29 02:45 PM

[Owen:]

I doubt anyone is still checking this old article, but the VIX just hit 75, as of 13:50 EDT.

2008 Oct 10 01:50 PM