The volatility indicator is a technical tool that measures how far security stretches away from its mean price, higher and lower. It computes the dispersion of returns over time in a visual format ...

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.

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 ...

A simple moving average. That’s the first thing you’ll learn in technical analysis boot camp. Over time, however, you’ll realize it’s a useless indicator. What is a 50-day, 100-day, 200-day moving ...

Fundamentally, trading is about analyzing the supply and demand of a security (asset which can be traded), such as stocks, commodities, or Forex pairs. A trader then makes decisions to purchase or ...

Pair traders hunting for an edge might want to focus on a little-known gauge tied to bitcoin (BTC) and the S&P 500. That gauge is the spread between Volmex’s BVIV – the 30-day implied volatility index ...

Miranda Marquit has been covering personal finance, investing and business topics for almost 15 years. She has contributed to numerous outlets, including NPR, Marketwatch, U.S. News & World Report and ...

As we emerge from the pandemic, we do so having changed profoundly in light of the experiences of the past two years. Capital markets are no different. They, too, have emerged quite different than ...

Today we are taking a closer look at volatility -- specifically, what it means when there is an abundance or lack of volatility, as well as the two primary types of volatility each options trader must ...