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To: JRI who wrote (20491)	11/9/2001 3:21:42 PM
From: Doo	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 209892

My two cents on the VIX, fwiw: Use real extremes like IIA or RYDEX, and you'll probably find that the signals for significant intermediate term turns are infrequent.....3-9 month periods. If you want to use it for anything else, just slap a 20 Bollinger Band on the daily and watch it swing from band to band in a 5 or so day period. Run 5 days in one direction and a short term turn, run 5 days in the other, etc. Other than that, as far as charting it, and TA'ing it, I think that's for the birds. But, that's how I'd use it. All else is far to subjective and really speculation without any method. EDIT: That's the way it's traditionally used, but it's hard to discern the kinds of band kissing and reversal with a big spike like we've had recently.