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The great thing about claims like these is you can fact-check them. https://www.macrotrends.net/2603/vix-volatility-index-historical-chart https://www.macrotre
by MiroF 6y ago
The great thing about claims like these is you can fact-check them.
https://www.macrotrends.net/2603/vix-volatility-index-historical-chart https://www.macrotrends.net/2603/vix-volatility-index-histor...
Here it appears that volatility went up, up, up for 2008 - then died back down to pre-crash levels with occasional spikes. I don't see volatility going much below what it was before the crash. You can see a similar pattern in 2020.
> After the first huge volumes of sales, trading would die down because no one had faith in the economy and the stock market.
I would honestly be shocked if this was a real thing - if a ton of people stopped trading, it would cause other people to trade on the inefficiencies that creates.