Bitcoin began its journey as an esoteric whitepaper published in the hinterlands of the World Wide Web in 2008. Bitcoin’s relative volatility rankings had higher peaks compared to the crash triggered ...

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 ...

Across most asset classes, historical data show a strong association between high volatility and falling prices. Read more here.

Option buyers should be wary when implied volatility appears to be running much higher than historical Today we are taking a closer look at volatility -- specifically, what it means when there is an ...

There is no single measure of implied volatility for FX markets, unlike those that exist for the S&P500 or for US interest rates. To fill the gap, banks build their own proprietary indices, such as ...