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Volatility is the bane of many investors. Bumpy moves in your portfolio in response to market fluctuations can cause you to make emotionally driven mistakes in your investing, and that can cause you ...

Volatility arbitrage is a trading strategy that aims to profit by exploiting differences between forecasted and implied volatilities of an asset. Learn how this strategy works.

Investors understand intuitively that some stocks are riskier than others. The capital asset pricing model attempts to quantify the common perception of risk using a term called beta. By understanding ...

Traders should prepare for heightened volatility as several key macroeconomic events approach. With significant economic reports and the Federal Reserve’s decision, implied volatility (IV) levels ...

Last week we saw a plethora of important earnings results and increased market volatility. This wee should be another busy ...