Re: New VIX symbol on Monday 9/22

[The Funkhousers <funkhouser@xxxxxxxx>]

Will the new Methodology make a comparison or linkage with the old data
incompatible?  If linking may be misleading.

Richard D Funkhouser

bobr wrote:

> On Monday 9/22 the CBOE is changing the S&P100 VIX symbol to VXO and
> assigning the VIX to the S&P500 options and using a new methodology for
> calculation.  Would someone with one of those xpo or omz data converters do
> us a favor and convert the historical data at
> http://www.cboe.com/micro/vix/historical.asp ?  It is available there as an
> Excel download.
>
> http://www.cboe.com/micro/vix/introduction.asp
> http://www.cboe.com/micro/vix/method.asp
>
>
> thanks,
> bobr