Measure Stock Volatility with Historical Data: A Practical Approach

Learn how using historical data, instead of standard deviation, offers a more accurate assessment of stock volatility and risk management strategies.

Beyond standard deviation: How skewness and kurtosis capture market extremes

Standard deviation, while common, inadequately captures investment risk due to its equal treatment of gains and losses and ...

How Expected Return and Standard Deviation Impact Your Portfolio

Expected return and standard deviation can help you analyze investment portfolios. Learn their differences, uses, and ...
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Here's What Nerds Mean When They Say 'Standard Deviation'

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Why Standard Deviation Matters When Choosing Investments

Standard deviation is a common statistical measurement and is defined by Oxford Dictionaries as: ‘A quantity expressing by how much the members of a group differ from the mean value for the group.’ In ...
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Here's What Nerds Mean When They Say 'Standard Deviation'

Flickr via Google Images Standard deviation is a concept that's thrown around frequently in finance. So what is it? When working with a quantitative data set, one of the first things we want to know ...