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Introducing the Cboe One-Year Volatility Index
April 2018 marks the 25th anniversary of the introduction of the Cboe Volatility Index® (VIX® Index) and during this month, information about the history of the VIX Index and the introduction of tradeable VIX products has been shared. Twenty-five years after the launch of the VIX Index (which measures 30-day expected volatility of the S&P 500 Index), Cboe introduced a new volatility index – the Cboe One-Year Volatility IndexSM (ticker: VIX1Y) – that measures that one-year expected volatility of the S&P 500 Index. This is the fifth volatility index based on SPX option pricing. All five volatility indexes are ... (full story)