Correlation relates to the fact that a low volatility environment encourages investors to move into riskier assets to get decent returns on their investments.
LONDON – There’s a growing relationship between the price of bitcoin and the VIX, the volatility index colloquially known as Wall Street’s “Fear Index,” according to analysts at Deutsche Bank.
Writing in a note circulated to clients on Friday, Deutsche Bank global financial strategist Masao Muraki, alongside his colleagues Hiroshi Torii and Tao Xu, said that in the three weeks of 2018 so far “correlation between Bitcoin and VIX has increased dramatically.”
Right now, market volatility is close to record lows, as measured by the CBOE Volatility Index, the most widely followed barometer of expected near-term stock market volatility. Simply put, markets are pretty dull, with little to no major fluctuations going on. Stocks simply keep rising.
That, in turn, is leading investors to look for more and more risky ways of making money, which Deutsche Bank believes is part of the reason for the huge rise seen in the cryptocurrency markets in recent months.
“The current ‘triple-low environment’ of low interest rates, low spreads, and low volatility has given birth to new asset classes like implied volatility (ETFs selling volatility), and cryptocurrencies,” the reports authors write.
Source/More: Deutsche Bank discusses the correlation between the VIX and the price of bitcoin – Business Insider
