S&P500 And Long-Term VIX Chart – Through January 24, 2018

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For reference purposes, below is a chart of the S&P500 and VIX from year 2003 through Wednesday’s (January 24, 2018) close.  The closing price for the S&P500 was 2837.54 and the VIX had a closing value of 11.47.  A dashed blue line depicts the VIX value of 20.  Price labels are also shown:

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

VIX vs SPX chart

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The Special Note summarizes my overall thoughts about our economic situation

SPX at 2837.54 as this post is written