Wall Street 'fear gauge' options volume jumps to 4-year high as bank stocks sell off

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Wall Street 'fear gauge' options volume jumps to 4-year high as bank stocks sell off
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Wall Street's most closely watched index of market anxiety jumped on Friday and options volume on the index soared to a near 4 year high as a growing crisis at SVB Financial weighed on stocks.

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That gradual pick up in volatility has kept the VIX below the 40 mark, a level associated with high fear in the market."The VIX has definitely, over the past year, not performed as people thought it would," said Matthew Tym, head of equity derivatives trading at Cantor Fitzgerald. "Finally, on a day like this people who have VIX positions on are rolling because they finally made some money in the VIX product.

Rolling involves closing an existing position and realizing gains or losses, while replacing the closed contracts with new ones. Friday's surge in the volatility index came as Wall Street's main stock indexes fell on Friday as investors fretted over the health of U.S. banks afterReporting by Saqib Iqbal Ahmed; Additional reporting by Laura Matthews; Editing by Ira Iosebashvili and David Gregorio

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