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Who cares? Volatility is uninteresting.

Volatility is where big money is made, ie. retails scalped

This narrative that retail is constantly panicking and selling every time the market drops is it based in anything? I'm under the impression the massive volume of buying/selling every day is institutional, and institutional investors/hedge funds are the ones constantly adjusting based on how data moves.

Second this.

All we know is that over time retail investors tend to underperform the markets, but that's true of sophisticated institutional investors too.

Plus: in 2022 when we had a bear year retail was the one buying the dips according to the news.

Eh, I like keeping an eye on S&P 500 VIX to get a sense of the current mood among oligarchs and their institutions.

I wouldn't use it for investment decisions, however.

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