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To: Wayners who wrote (41064)	12/1/2012 8:33:35 AM
From: Hawkmoon	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 223038

Whether the Fed trading desk is buying/selling the VIX to reduce perceived volatility would be hard to say without looking at their trading book.. But they are known to have intervened in the futures markets through ETFs.. zerohedge.com Hawk

To: Wayners who wrote (41064)	12/1/2012 10:23:06 AM
From: ggersh	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 223038

The VIX is based on a market of stocks, rather than a market of stocks being based on the VIX All Indexes are based on the underlying, so it should be the underlying determining the price of the index, make sense? In 87 it's a little known fact but at the CBOT there was an Index called the MMI, it was hardly traded and had very little volume, but it was where the FED started buying huge on Tuesday people.duke.edu I couldn't find it, but I believe Bart13 has it somewhere on his site....nowandfutures.com