While there might not be VIX shares to trade, however, you can place your bets on the volatility index with VIX options. Essentially, VIX options aren't too different from equity options.

Market volatility surges as Trump’s tariff policies jolt stocks; the VIX jumps 54% since mid-February. Investors can hedge with VIX ETFs, defensive broad-market plays, and trend-following ...

Global investors had time to prepare for Donald Trump’s tariffs but swift market reversals are keeping them on edge ...

The current trade war rhetoric is impossible to escape on Wall Street, and has left investors mulling over subsequential ...

The VIX’s journey from a theoretical concept to a practical trading instrument continued with the introduction of VIX futures in 2004, followed by exchange-traded products (ETPs) in 2009 ...

It measures the expectation of future volatility based on a snapshot of the previous 30 days’ worth of trading activity. A VIX level above 20 is typically considered “high.” A VIX below 12 ...

And this is quite simply, you go back to 1990, that was the inception of VIX trading, or VIX calculations, at least. And you take an average of every year. Since it's a mean-reverting asset ...