Our take on Volatility: When You Are More Likely to Realize Good Investment Outcomes
June 03, 2019 at 11:46 AM EDT
By Denis Rezendes, CFA What is volatility? From a purely technical standpoint, volatility, otherwise known as standard deviation, is a statistical measure of data’s dispersion around its mean. In more simple terms, volatility is a way to measure swings in the price of securities or market indices....