There's nothing like a good selloff to turn a trader into an investor – so the saying goes. It's an adage that echoes the sentiment of an even older one: buy when there's blood in the streets. The maxims ring true after Thursday's selloff in stocks that sent the Cboe Volatility Index (VIX) to its biggest one-day move since April 2025's "Liberation" week for tariffs , according to data from Bespoke Investment Group. In the 19 instances since 1990 in which the VIX rose at least five points from under 20 – it surged more than 11 points from 16.6 to 28.2 Thursday – the median return for the S&P 500 Index three months later was 4.2%, and 4.
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