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Strategies & Market Trends : Waiting for the big Kahuna -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: William H Huebl who wrote (56683)	2/5/2002 10:29:32 PM
From: Skeet Shipman	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 94695

CHICAGO, Feb 5 (Reuters) - An options market barometer of investor fear could be signaling more trouble ahead for the stock market amid rising anxiety over corporate accounting abuses following the Enron Corp.(NYSE:ENE - news) meltdown. ADVERTISEMENT The Market Volatility Index(^VIX - news) (VIX), an options sentiment index that basically measures how worried investors are, has recently broken out of a slumber, and some traders think that portends another fall in the stock market. ``Our indicator, which tracks the 21-day (21 trading-day) average of the VIX, shows fear levels are just now starting to turn up after being depressed in recent weeks,'' said Price Headley, chief analyst at BigTrends.com, an options advisory firm. ``Increasing fear should cause more problems for the markets over the next one to two months.''