J.B. Maverick is an active trader, commodity futures broker, and stock market analyst 17+ years of experience, in addition to 10+ years of experience as a finance writer and book editor. Vikki ...

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 ...

Let's dive into what volatility is, why it's a big deal, and how a trader can harness it with OctaTrader, a proprietary trading platform from the globally trusted broker, Octa. Have you ever wondered ...

Stock market volatility refers to how much a stock's price moves up and down over time. Picture a stock swinging from $50 to $80 and then plummeting back to $30 in a few weeks. That stock has high ...

Bollinger Bandwidth is one of the few technical indicators that measures volatility. Most indicators use price and attempt to identify trend changes. Bollinger Bandwidth measures how strong the recent ...

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 ...

Volatility has been crazy! The S&P 500 third quarter total return was -13.9% followed by +10.9% for October and now back to declines in November. The Russell 2000 index of smaller stocks returned ...

Andy Smith is a Certified Financial Planner (CFP®), licensed realtor and educator with over 35 years of diverse financial management experience. He is an expert on personal finance, corporate finance ...

Some of the most commonly used tools to gauge relative levels of stock market volatility are the Cboe Volatility Index (VIX), ...

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 ...