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• Volatility (finance) — Volatility most frequently refers to the standard deviation of the continuously compounded returns of a financial instrument with a specific time horizon. It is often used to quantify the risk of the instrument over that time period. Volatility… …   Wikipedia

• Volatility risk — in financial markets is the likelihood of fluctuations in the exchange rate of currencies. Therefore, it is a probability measure of the threat that an exchange rate movement poses to an investor s portfolio in a foreign currency.The volatility… …   Wikipedia

• Volatility smile — In finance, the volatility smile is a long observed pattern in which at the money options tend to have lower implied volatilities than in or out of the money options. The pattern displays different characteristics for different markets and… …   Wikipedia

• volatility — A measurement of the change in price over a given period. It is often expressed as a percentage and computed as the annualized standard deviation of the percentage change in daily price. Chicago Board of Trade glossary The rate of change in a… …   Financial and business terms

• Volatility Skew — The difference in implied volatility (IV) between out of the money, at the money and in the money options. Volatility skew, which is affected by sentiment and the supply/demand relationship, provides information on whether fund managers prefer to …   Investment dictionary

• Volatility — A measure of risk based on the standard deviation of investment fund performance over 3 years. Scale is 1 9; higher rating indicates higher risk. Also, the standard deviation of changes in the logarithm of an asset price, expressed as a yearly… …   Financial and business terms

• volatility — The state of being subjected to rapid and unpredictable changes, with resulting high *risks. For example: The volatility of Middle East oil markets is legendary …   Auditor's dictionary

• implied volatility — Volatility of a financial instrument that is imputed by subtracting all of the other factors thought to contribute to the price of an option. The amount remaining after those subtractions is attributed to volatility. Implied volatility is not the …   Financial and business terms

• realized volatility — Volatility calculated using the actual movements of prices in financial markets. See volatility and implied volatility. American Banker Glossary Sometimes referred to as the historical volatility, this term usually used in the context of… …   Financial and business terms

• SABR Volatility Model — In mathematical finance, the SABR model is a stochastic volatility model, which attempts to capture the volatility smile in derivatives markets. The name stands for Stochastic Alpha, Beta, Rho , referring to the parameters of the model.The SABR… …   Wikipedia

• January 2008 stock market volatility — January 2008 was an especially volatile month in world stock markets, with a surge in implied volatility measurements of the US based S P 500 index [ [http://www.economist.com/displaystory.cfm?story id=10635708 Markets, Uncertain Times] , The… …   Wikipedia