Whilst equities significantly rebounded, the VIX was naturally back in cooling mode, settling -6.8% @ 22.50. Near term outlook offers the sp'1940s, and that will likely equate to VIX 20/19s. Best case for the equity bulls are the sp'1970s... before the next VIX hyper surge into the 40s.
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Suffice to add, the VIX is continuing to cool from the high of 32.09... when sp'1812.
It would seem there is a fairly high probability that the market will hold together, battling upward into mid February.
VIX looks set to lose the key 20 threshold... at least briefly.
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more later... on the indexes