VIX
Index · United StatesCboe's Volatility Index — a thirty-day reading of expected S&P 500 swings, derived from options prices. It rises when traders pay up for protection, which is why the press calls it the fear gauge.
We never publish the index level — it isn’t our data. What you can trade is VIXY, the ProShares VIX Short-Term Futures ETF; the reference chart below is VIXY via TradingView. VIXY holds short-term VIX futures — the tradable cousin of the index, not the index itself.
Reference chart
The line runs $20.69 on 14 July through $16.29 on 9 October, on a scale from $16 to $24. Days the market did not trade hold the previous close, flat.
Finazon · prior-day close, indicative (IEX-derived, not the official close), some closes dollar-rounded at the source
What the crowd says
Reddit has said “vix” 7,857 times since December 2025 — 2,757 of those in the last 90 days.
The count is the phrase itself, as the crowd wrote it — country names never resolve here.
Counts come from the tracked subreddits · as of 12 Oct 2026.
Sources
- Finazonprior-day close, indicative (IEX-derived, not the official close), some closes dollar-rounded at the source
- TradingViewthe price chart widget, drawn by TradingView from their own data
- RedditReddit ingest across the tracked finance subreddits