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July 30, 2026

VIX With Alternate Bollinger Bands

The VIX Index is telling us that there are problems in the stock market.  To read that message, one must look at more than just the VIX's numerical value. Years ago I did some tinkering with using Bollinger Bands on the VIX, and naturally started with the default parameters that almost everyone uses, which are a 20-day lookback period, and bands set 2 standard deviations above and below the 20-day moving average.  These settings are known by chartists as "20-2".  I started tinkering because I was not satisfied with the messages I was getting from those settings. What I found was… more

 

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