It measures the month-forward implied volatility on S&P 500 index options. If the market thinks the S&P 500 will have annualized volatility of 25% over the next 30 days, the market will price options accordingly. And we can extract that using the Black-Scholes formula.

it's measures the volatility of the market, the higher the VIX the higher the volatility

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