Taylor Tepper covered banking, investing and pretty much everything else in personal finance for more than a decade, with his work appearing in the New York Times, Fortune and MONEY magazine, as well ...

While copying from one spreadsheet to another, if you get Excel ran out of resources while attempting to calculate one or more formulas error, this guide will help you fix the issue. It happens when ...

Bollinger Bands signal potential overbought or oversold stocks by measuring price volatility. Traders use Bollinger Bands to predict stock price movements, though they have limitations. Bollinger Band ...

Microsoft Excel’s mathematical capabilities often go far beyond the needs of most everyday users. However, Excel’s built-in statistical functions make it an essential tool for anyone who works with ...

A year ago, I wrote a piece here about how people were really using gen AI. That article seemed to hit a note: It was popular, featured in viral posts, and the beautiful accompanying infographic has ...

Have you ever found yourself wrestling with Excel formulas, trying to calculate moving averages or rolling totals, only to end up frustrated by the constant need for manual adjustments? You’re not ...

If you are working with a large dataset, knowing its standard deviation is handy as it will let you know the variability in the given dataset. You get to see the degree of asymmetry in your dataset ...

If you are using Microsoft Excel to manage numerical data, at some point you're inevitably going to display percentages. Doing so can give you a new insight, or make summarizing heaps of data a bit ...

We calculate compound interest based on frequency. This frequency is the compound frequency, which refers to the number of times an interest is calculated and added to the principal amount within the ...

But for investors and financial analysts, the raw standard deviation number isn’t always the most helpful. This is where the concept of annualizing standard deviation comes into play. It allows for a ...

In response to my article, Is the Stock Market Too Concentrated?, which relied upon standard-deviation calculations to assess investment risk, a reader wrote: “My problem [with your argument] is ...