Institutional Investor (April 4)
2018/ 04/ 06 by jd in Global News
On February 5, after a placid 2017, “the VIX surged from the previous trading day’s close of 17.3 to 37.3…the largest daily percentage increase in the three-decade history of the index, more than doubling in one day.” Some investors have been overreacting to the detriment of performance when they should be simply tuning out the noise. “Volatility can create a risk: that we reduce our market exposure at the point of maximum psychological pain; in other words, we sell at the bottom…. Sometimes the best thing we can do is simply nothing.”
Tags: Bottom, Investors, Market exposure, Overreacting, Pain, Performance, Risk, Sell, VIX, Volatility
