Bitcoin began its journey as an esoteric whitepaper published in the hinterlands of the World Wide Web in 2008. Bitcoin’s relative volatility rankings had higher peaks compared to the crash triggered ...

Find out why volatility plays a key role in the valuation of awards based on total shareholder returns. Volatility is a measure of how much the price of a security, such as a share of stock, changes ...

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Despite a recent uptick to a more normal level near 16, the Cboe Volatility Index has averaged around just 12.8 over the past 30 trading days as of July 18, indicating relative calm in U.S. equities.

Option buyers should be wary when implied volatility appears to be running much higher than historical Today we are taking a closer look at volatility -- specifically, what it means when there is an ...

There is no single measure of implied volatility for FX markets, unlike those that exist for the S&P500 or for US interest rates. To fill the gap, banks build their own proprietary indices, such as ...

The main impact of COVID-19 on forex trading has been volatility. The FOREX markets in March have been more volatile than any time in the past five years. Using a measurement of both historical ...

Implied volatility is a powerful but often misunderstood metric that plays a major role in options trading. Implied volatility doesn’t tell you what’s going to happen to an option’s price, but it ...