#vix

How much more volatility the options market is pricing in than the market has actually delivered — the carry that every short-volatility strategy harvests — computed live from Yahoo Finance, no key, nothing stored. Implied volatility (the VIX and its cousins) is almost always richer than the volatility that subsequently shows up: investors pay up for protection, and that gap, the variance risk premium, is one of the most persistent paid-for risks in markets. This API measures it directly across the major asset classes that publish an implied-vol index: for the S&P 500 (VIX), the Nasdaq 100 (VXN), crude oil (OVX) and gold (GVZ), it takes the live implied-vol index and subtracts the realised volatility actually delivered by the underlying over the matching ~30-day window (annualised standard deviation of daily log returns), and returns the premium in volatility points, the implied/realised ratio and a rich/cheap read. A large positive VRP means options are expensive relative to what the market has been doing (sellers are well paid); a negative VRP — implied below realised — is rare and flags that options are cheap, often during or right after a stress event. The premium endpoint returns all four markets ranked; the asset endpoint returns one market with 21- and 30-day realised legs; the history endpoint returns the VRP time series. This is the implied-minus-realised / variance-risk-premium cut for equities and commodities — distinct from the implied-vol level board (no realised leg), the realised-volatility dashboard (no implied leg) and the crypto-only DVOL/VRP API.

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The shape of the equity volatility curve — the single most-watched regime signal in the options world — computed live from Yahoo Finance, no key, nothing stored. A VIX level tells you how scared the market is right now; the term structure tells you whether that fear is short-term panic or a calm, persistent state, and which way it is rolling. This API reads the S&P 500 implied-volatility curve across four tenors — the 9-day VIX, the headline 30-day VIX, the 3-month VIX and the 6-month VIX — and turns it into a regime. When the curve slopes up (VIX < VIX3M < VIX6M) the market is in contango: calm, with near-term vol cheaper than far, the state short-vol strategies harvest. When it inverts to backwardation (VIX above VIX3M) the front end is bid above the back: acute stress, fear spiking, historically near capitulation. The structure endpoint returns the live curve, the contango ratio (VIX / VIX3M), the short-end ratio (VIX9D / VIX), the roll yield a short-vol position would earn, the slope classification and a regime read, with VVIX (the vol of the VIX) for context. The history endpoint returns the daily time series of the contango ratio and flags every backwardation day. The percentile endpoint places today's contango ratio in its one-year range. This is the volatility term-structure / contango-backwardation cut — distinct from the cross-asset VIX-family level board, the crypto DVOL index and the realised-volatility APIs. It is the shape of fear, not its level.

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One number for the market's mood across asset classes — a live 0-100 risk-on / risk-off (RORO) score, computed from Yahoo Finance (no key, nothing stored). On any day capital is either reaching for risk or fleeing to safety, and the signal lives in the relationships between markets, not any single price. This blends four classic cross-asset gauges — stocks vs long bonds (SPY/TLT), high-yield vs investment-grade credit (HYG/LQD), copper vs gold (the growth metal vs the haven) and the VIX (inverted) — into one score: high = risk-on (greed), low = risk-off (fear). The score endpoint returns the composite, each gauge's contribution and a regime label; the components endpoint returns the four underlying ratios with where each sits in its recent range (its percentile), so you can see what is driving the mood. The cross-asset risk-sentiment / RORO composite cut — distinct from the intermarket-ratios feed (raw ratios), the volatility-index API and the price APIs. It synthesises the regime, not the parts.

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Live market "fear gauges" across asset classes as an API, served from Yahoo Finance. The VIX is the market's headline fear index — the S&P 500's 30-day implied volatility — and this returns it alongside the rest of the family: the 9-day VIX (short-term fear), the Nasdaq-100 (VXN) and Dow (VXD) volatility indices, crude-oil (OVX) and gold (GVZ) volatility, and the VVIX, the volatility of the VIX itself. Each comes with its current level, the day's change, and its day and 52-week range, and the board adds a plain-language fear regime from the VIX (complacent, normal, elevated, high or extreme). Get the whole board or one index. The implied-volatility and risk-sentiment layer for trading, macro-research and dashboard apps. Live, no key, no cache. Distinct from equity-index, crypto-volatility and FX-volatility APIs — this is the cross-asset implied-volatility (fear) suite.

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