{"id":146246,"date":"2010-01-06T16:34:00","date_gmt":"2010-01-06T21:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/pre-lehman-complacency-is-back-2010-1"},"modified":"2010-01-06T16:34:00","modified_gmt":"2010-01-06T21:34:00","slug":"the-vix-screams-pre-lehman-complacency-as-it-hits-a-new-low","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/146246","title":{"rendered":"The VIX Screams Pre-Lehman Complacency As It Hits A New Low"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Volatility Index (VIX) is a tricky beast, but here&#8217;s at least one indicator that pre-Lehman levels of market complacency are back.<\/p>\n<p>The VIX just hit a 16-month low today, basically wiping away the entire panic-driven run-up since Lehman went boom. If you&#8217;re getting bearish, the good news is that buying puts as protection for your current stocks could be getting cheaper due to less future potential volatility priced-in. It might be worth a look.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/static.businessinsider.com\/~~\/f?id=4b44fe820000000000a8c0b0&amp;maxX=550\" border=\"0\" alt=\"VIX\" width=\"550\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/pre-lehman-complacency-is-back-2010-1#comments\">Join the conversation about this story &#187;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>See Also:<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/risk-is-dead-the-vix-on-track-for-a-new-low-2009-12\">Risk Is Dead &#8212; The VIX Is About To Hit A New Low<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/35-vix-spike-is-a-buy-signal-2009-10\">The VIX Goes Schizophrenic<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/the-vix-etf-vxx-is-another-classic-etf-disaster-2009-10\">The VIX ETF &quot;VXX&quot; Is Another Classic ETF Disaster<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/TheMoneyGame\/~4\/ExIMNuv5I64\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Volatility Index (VIX) is a tricky beast, but here&#8217;s at least one indicator that pre-Lehman levels of market complacency are back. The VIX just hit a 16-month low today, basically wiping away the entire panic-driven run-up since Lehman went boom. If you&#8217;re getting bearish, the good news is that buying puts as protection for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-146246","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146246","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=146246"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146246\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=146246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=146246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=146246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}