fear index · priced
Ask PrometheusA price that a market reads as its own fear: what its members give for protection against a large move toward a wall.
Fear index (noun) means: A price that a market reads as its own fear: what its members give for protection against a large move toward a wall. It emerges from fear, price, market, read: Fear is not asked for but inferred from what traders pay for protection, so the report is made in money and can itself be traded. In the EmergenceLexicon it sits at computed level 18, chaining down to the four foundations (space, time, energy, pattern).
ordinarily means: a nickname for a market measure of expected volatility, especially the VIX
Examples
- The CBOE Volatility Index (VIX), nicknamed the fear index, is computed from S&P 500 option prices and rises when traders pay more to protect against large moves. finance
Emergence
through: Fear is not asked for but inferred from what traders pay for protection, so the report is made in money and can itself be traded.
- an affect with a price
- a report that is also a traded thing
Chain to foundations
full chain as text (455 steps)
- fear indexL18
- fearL15
- self-modelL14
- reportL8
- messageL7
- stateL2
- happenL2
- eventL3
- informationL6
- wallL8
- nearL2
- spaceL0
- differenceL1
- motionL2
- narrowL5
- reachL13
- crossL4
- timeL0
- priceL8
- marketL17
- readL7
- seeL6
- informationL6
- entitiesL4
- memberL7
- giveL7
- protectionL15
- againstL13
- largeL3
- motionL2
- towardL12
- wallL8
- fearL15
Neighborhood
Concepts that depend on this one above; what it is built from below.
Relations
| contrasts-with | fear-and-greed.swing | the fear index measures one end of the swing |
| contrasts-with | market-jitters.near-wall | jitters are the report; the index is its measured price |