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ProShares VIX Short-Term Futures ETF (VIXY) fell 3.02% this week to $17.66, while the S&P 500 gained 0.49%, leaving VIXY roughly 3.51 percentage points behind. It opened Monday at $18.11, touched an intraday high of $18.46, then drifted lower through the week. Thursday marked the low at $17.35, and Friday’s bounce was not enough to reclaim the prior Friday’s close of $18.21. The week was a choppy decline.
Cboe Volatility Index This Week
The Cboe Volatility Index lost 4.63% to 14.43. It opened at 15.9 on Monday, spiked to 16.3 on Tuesday, then slid to 14.13 on Friday, the lowest reading in the past 60 trading days. The 20-day average sits at 15.245 and the 60-day at 16.836, so the index closed below both.
Leverage & Decay
With the underlying index down 4.63%, a 1x daily-replication estimate would imply roughly -4.63% for the week. VIXY actually returned -3.02%, a gap of +1.61 percentage points. That gap comes from daily rebalancing: the product tracks 1x the index’s daily move, not 1x the weekly cumulative move. In a one-way slide, tracking error tends to be modest, but Wednesday and Thursday saw back-and-forth swings that widened the divergence. This weekly gap can expand further as volatility increases, meaning long-term holding is not the same as 1x index returns.
Cboe Volatility Index News
This week’s volatility-related coverage centred on two threads: Fed Chair Warsh’s comments around Jackson Hole and a market fragility gauge reaching an extreme reading. On August 25, one Wall Street measure of market fragility hit its highest possible level, with the last occurrence preceding a volatility spike. On August 28 and 29, Warsh’s remarks on AI-era inflation risks and policy reform made headlines, while stocks finished the week higher. These items landed alongside the VIX’s weekly slide and the underlying index testing its 60-day low.
The Week Ahead
US macro data comes thick next week. September 1 brings the S&P Global manufacturing PMI final and ISM manufacturing PMI, with the latter at a prior 55.6 against a consensus 55.2, plus JOLTS job openings. September 2 sees ADP payrolls and factory orders, along with EIA crude inventory. These releases will shape rate-path expectations and volatility pricing, making them the key catalysts for the Cboe Volatility Index in the days ahead.
In Short
VIXY declined while the Cboe Volatility Index closed near its 60-day low, yet an extreme market-fragility reading and the Fed chair’s inflation warnings sat side by side with that low volatility print. That tension leaves the market waiting for next week’s manufacturing and labour data to confirm whether this low-vol regime can hold.
This article is generated by LongbridgeAI from market data, for information only and not investment advice.