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 $22.85 on 24 June through $17.06 on 18 September, on a scale from $16 to $24. Days the market did not trade hold the previous close, flat.
Finazon · prior-day close, some closes dollar-rounded at the source
The chart above plots the price of VIXY over the range selected — one day to the full history — drawn by TradingView from their own data. Our own licensed end-of-day series holds 61 sessions over that window: $22.85 on 24 June 2026 through $17.06 on 18 September 2026. Finazon · prior-day close, some closes dollar-rounded at the source.
What the crowd says
Reddit has said “vix” 7,334 times since December 2025 — 2,579 of those in the last 90 days.
The count is the phrase itself, as the crowd wrote it — country names never resolve here.
Source: Reddit ingest, the tracked subreddits · chart via TradingView (VIXY) · as of 16 Sep 2026.