VIX Weekly And Monthly Charts Since The Year 2000 – August 3, 2016 Update

For reference purposes, below are two charts of the VIX from year 2000 through Tuesday's (August 2, 2016) close, which had a closing value of 13.37.

Here is the VIX Weekly chart, depicted on a LOG scale, with the 13- and 34-week moving averages, seen in the cyan and red lines, respectively:

(click on chart to enlarge image)(chart courtesy of StockCharts.com; chart creation and annotation by the author)

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Here is the VIX Monthly chart, depicted on a LOG scale, with the 13- and 34-month moving average, seen in the cyan and red lines, respectively:

(click on chart to enlarge image)(chart courtesy of StockCharts.com; chart creation and annotation by the author)

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The Special Note summarizes my overall thoughts about our economic situation

SPX at 2157.03 as this post is written