With US equities weakening into the close, the VIX settled higher, +10.8% @ 13.94 (intra high 14.31). Near term outlook offers renewed equity strength, with the VIX likely to cool into the 12/11s. The big 20 threshold looks out of range until at least May.
VIX'60min
VIX'daily3
Summary
Little to add.
An interesting net daily gain for the VIX, but overall... the equity market looks very strong.
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more later.. on the indexes