1) The market is "down" but not very much. It opened near it's low and rallied somewhat.
2) That can be indicative of short-covering and aggressive put-selling which can pressure VIX indices even when the underlying is trading lower.
3) "It" can go lower than you expect it to. :eek:
4) The correlation, at best, is "only" ~-80% according to the CBOE.![]()
Shouldn't put-selling be pushing the underlying up?
