if you look at anything today that was back to normalish, it was all highs. chart of pull up a nordstrom are macy's, -- romaine: blackberry shares. [laughter] it is like a blast from the past. joe: anything that was old or forgotten about, it was hot today. feels like that exuberance is starting to build. romaine: you are seeing investors come off the sidelines. take a look at the vix because i do not know if it -- i do not know if the signal is. some people say the vix is not the best measure of fear that it is known for. this general idea that there are poor structural issues going on in the options market that are skewing this. you're talking about 10 straight months we have averaged over 20. the longest stretch we have seen in some time. we have not quite taken all the fear out of the market. even some of the other measures here. you are definitely still seeing some defensive positioning. not everyone has bought all in to this yet. joe: for more, let's bring in katie grice failed. from my perspective, and looking at the chart of options volume, it looks l