VOLATILITY

Volatility

In finance, volatility is a measure for variation of price of a financial instrument over time. Historic volatility is derived from time series of past market prices. An implied volatility is derived from the market price of a market traded derivative . The symbol σ is used for volatility, and corresponds to standard deviation, which should not be confused with the similarly named variance, which is instead the square, σ2. here one thing should be noted that volatility and risk are two different things according to zain ullah Numl the volatility means the tendency of moving up and down the securities prices while the risk means a ...

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volatility

Noun

  1. The state of being volatile
    1. The state of having a low boiling point and evaporating readily
    2. The state of not retaining data in the absence of power
    3. The state of being able to fly
    4. The state of being unpredictable
    5. (Financial markets, countable, plural volatilities) A quantification of the degree of uncertainty about the future price of a commodity, share, or other financial product


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