Quantifying fear: How investor anxiety moves markets

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Investopedia uses 27 million monthly users and 80 million pageviews to build the Investopedia Anxiety Index from searches on 12 fear-related terms; the index routinely predicts VIX spikes (anxiety spikes on the site precede market-volatility jumps) and a backtest with a quant shows an average 19% annualized portfolio return versus 14% using VIX signals and 12.9% for buy-and-hold. The index flags spikes around events like Lehman and 2016 selloffs and supports local heat maps of interest.

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