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 ...

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Volatility arbitrage is a trading strategy that aims to profit by exploiting differences between forecasted and implied ...

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 ...

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 ...

Equities have been far less volatile than almost everything else so far this year, with bigger swings racing through the ...

While virtually no global market segment escaped the turmoil of the past year, US large cap equities were dealt a particularly sharp blow. As defensive industries have cycled into favor, the market ...

It’s the biggest week of the quarter for earnings this week with plenty of big names set to report. This week we have Tesla ...