Articles written by Lawrence G. McMillan - Benzinga

How The Stock Market May React To A Contested Election

There has only been one contested election since listed options have been trading – the 2000 election between George W. Bush and Al Gore. Election day was November 7th, 2000. The accompanying charts, courtesy of tradingview.com, show the pertinent time period. There had been a good rally in August, but that had been completely reversed by mid-October.

Looking At The VIX In Election Years - 2020 Update

We have previously seen that $VIX has a slightly different pattern in election years than in most years. The wild market action of 2020 caused point “A” to be much higher than it previously was (maybe we should be using the median here, too). The low point of $VIX after that occurs just about exactly on the first of September, and 2020 matches up with that pretty well.