Here is the GME chart.
Vertical lines denote starts of periods. I have some fun triangles too just for giggles.
You'll see here a clear pattern. 7 weeks to short, 4 week runup, 1 week to I don't know what, restart the short cycle I guess. Given that the total is 12 weeks (approx quarterly) I think that fits pretty well with the quarterly options expiration. I...
VIX in Uptrend.
2020 and 2018 "flash crashes" did not exhibit prolonged volatility runups. They were volatility spikes. All major volatility spikes on VIX are followed by a downtrend with intermittent volatility spikes. This holds true the time period of listing.
Going back to '91, there are 3 instances of VIX in a prolonged uptrend. These are 1996-1999,...
