Trading volatility over the past few months hasn't helped the rising voices of speculation.
Not exact matches
Fortescue's new CEO, Elizabeth Gaines, who took
over in February, said «it remains to be seen what impact (the internationalisation) will have on speculative
trading and
volatility in the market.»
Regardless, the fact that this metric has fallen into the lower range of readings
over the past ten years — outside of the very low readings during the crisis — suggests that recent movements in
volatility have come amid relatively subdued
trading volumes.»
Although increased market
volatility might make traders more dependent on Bloomberg's services in the short term, any contraction in global
trade and capital markets would inevitably lower demand for the company's services
over time.
According to Bloomberg data, the VIX Index, a proxy for U.S. equity market implied
volatility,
traded over 50 on Monday morning, the highest level since the financial crisis.
Over the past few weeks, price action has been quiet and
volatility has been low, with the price
trading in a tight range near the highs of the base:
Using new transaction - level data, authors Leonardo Bartolini, Svenja Gudell, Spence Hilton and Krista Schwarz show that
trade volume in the federal funds market exhibits large swings
over the course of the day while prices remain fairly stable, with rate
volatility rising sharply only near the end of the
trading day.
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Trading in Cryptocurrency CFDs involves a high risk of loss of funds
over a short period of time due to the extreme
volatility surrounding cryptocurrencies.
With
volatility over the last two years at record lows traders have been itching to
trade something that really moves.
The relative value of a country's currency is directly tied in to forecast interest rates in one country versus another, which means that we could continue to experience
volatility in the foreign - exchange market (where currencies
trade in relation to one another)
over the summer as well.
Using a custom excel spreadsheet containing price data for the current Dividend Champions, I began by calculating the historical
volatility over the past 63, 126, and 252
trading days of each Dividend Champion.
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Trading» Significant price
volatility in BCH, also known as BCash, accompanied a botched release on GDAX, which then saw activity tantamount to market manipulation, critics are saying.
Monthly inverse
volatility weights derive from actual daily asset return
volatilities over the past 90
trading days.
I then calculated the risk - adjusted returns (calculated as the returns divided by the historical
volatility) for each Dividend Champion
over the past 63, 126, and 252
trading days.
With a lack of liquidity already an issue, a downturn in
trading volume
over the summer months could contribute to further
volatility.
Monthly risk parity weights derive from actual daily asset return
volatilities and correlations
over the past 90
trading days.
Both weighting schemes target 10 % portfolio
volatility by each month applying overall leverage based on actual annualized
volatility of an unleveraged trend following portfolio
over the past 60
trading days divided by 10 %.
To investigate, we consider a simple VRP specification: S&P 500 Implied
Volatility Index (VIX) minus standard deviation of daily S&P 500 Index returns
over the past 21
trading days.
As equities have ground ever higher
over the past year, very large short -
volatility positions have been building in the markets — largely in
volatility - targeting strategies employed by institutional investors and leveraged exchange -
traded products geared toward individuals.
While
volatility created by ETFs might be painful
over the short - term through intra-day
trading anomalies, it may also create idiosyncratic valuation distortions for active managers to capture.
Before late January injected a surge of
volatility into equities, driven by investor fears
over a handful of factors including rising rates, tightening monetary policy, more regulation on big tech and rising global
trade tensions, investors were smooth sailing on the nine - year bull market.
Similar losses were recorded by the S&P 500 Index and the Nasdaq, while the «fear index» (the CBOE
Volatility Index) spiked
over 18 (five points above where it usually
trades).
I don't day -
trade, I look at 1 hr charts and above, using higher time frames allows you to maintain clarity and gives you the power to map the markets with precision
over the short - term noise and
volatility.
Calculate daily realized
volatility of IEF as the standard deviation of daily total returns
over the past 21
trading days, multiplied by the square root of 252 to annualize.
The CBOE VIX, Wall Street's preferred measure of
volatility, has
traded between 15 and 20
over the past month.
«Identifying VXX / XIV Tendencies» finds that the
Volatility Risk Premium (VRP), estimated as the difference between the current level of the S&P 500 implied volatility index (VIX) and the annualized standard deviation of S&P 500 Index daily returns over the previous 21 trading days (multiplying by the square root of 250 to annualize), may be a useful predictor of iPath S&P 500 VIX Short - term Futures ETN (VXX) and VelocityShares Daily Inverse VIX Short - term ETN (XIV
Volatility Risk Premium (VRP), estimated as the difference between the current level of the S&P 500 implied
volatility index (VIX) and the annualized standard deviation of S&P 500 Index daily returns over the previous 21 trading days (multiplying by the square root of 250 to annualize), may be a useful predictor of iPath S&P 500 VIX Short - term Futures ETN (VXX) and VelocityShares Daily Inverse VIX Short - term ETN (XIV
volatility index (VIX) and the annualized standard deviation of S&P 500 Index daily returns
over the previous 21
trading days (multiplying by the square root of 250 to annualize), may be a useful predictor of iPath S&P 500 VIX Short - term Futures ETN (VXX) and VelocityShares Daily Inverse VIX Short - term ETN (XIV) returns.
CFTC spokeswoman Erica Elliott Richardson said that Giancarlo has been «clear that market participants should take note that the relatively nascent underlying cash markets and exchanges for bitcoin remain largely unregulated markets
over which the CFTC has limited statutory authority, and that investors should be aware of the potentially high level of
volatility and risk in
trading these contracts.»
Alex Moffatt, Director of financial consultancy firm, Joseph Palmer and Sons Victoria, told Australian Food News the
volatility and volume in RFG's shares
over the past couple of days has been extraordinary and that he personally believed it was exacerbated by algorithmic
trading.
Microsoft recently upped its dividend and has been
trading well, although it has mostly been going up and down with the general market which leads me to believe there will be good buying opportunities in the future as the
volatility in the market is likely not
over.
Using a custom excel spreadsheet containing price data for the current Dividend Champions, I began by calculating the historical
volatility over the past 63, 126, and 252
trading days of each Dividend Champion.
To investigate, we consider a simple VRP specification: S&P 500 Implied
Volatility Index (VIX) minus standard deviation of daily S&P 500 Index returns
over the past 21
trading days.
2) A lot of
trades over the past few years have been similar in nature, i.e. long risk assets = short
volatility.
Risk premia harvesting strategies are based on the premise that
over time implied
volatility trades higher than what is actually realized in the underlying market.
To investigate, we consider two measures of U.S. stock market
volatility: (1) realized volatility, calculated as the standard deviation of daily S&P 500 Index return over the last 21 trading days (annualized); and, (2) implied volatility as measured by the Chicago Board Options Exchange Market Volatility In
volatility: (1) realized
volatility, calculated as the standard deviation of daily S&P 500 Index return over the last 21 trading days (annualized); and, (2) implied volatility as measured by the Chicago Board Options Exchange Market Volatility In
volatility, calculated as the standard deviation of daily S&P 500 Index return
over the last 21
trading days (annualized); and, (2) implied
volatility as measured by the Chicago Board Options Exchange Market Volatility In
volatility as measured by the Chicago Board Options Exchange Market
Volatility In
Volatility Index (VIX).
For both, we calculate VoV as the standard deviation of
volatility over the past 21
trading days and test the ability of VoV to predict SPDR S&P 500 (SPY) returns.
With
volatility over the last two years at record lows traders have been itching to
trade something that really moves.
I then calculated the risk - adjusted returns (calculated as the returns divided by the historical
volatility) for each Dividend Champion
over the past 63, 126, and 252
trading days.
They're interested in quick and dirty gains based on short - term price
volatility, and they make numerous
trade executions
over a short time span.
The remaining 500 stocks are weighted based on their daily standard deviation (
volatility)
over the last 180
trading days compared to the aggregate mean.
On Wednesday, February 7, dollar value
traded in U.S. - listed ETFs represented more than 35 % of the consolidated tape (compared with an average of 26 % in 2017).5 The rise in ETF turnover on both an absolute and relative basis to broad equities amid the significant market
volatility implies investors and traders chose ETFs
over single stocks.
The multiple - thousand percent price appreciation has been accompanied by
trade volumes well
over $ 1 billion since May, continued low correlations to other assets and sharpe ratios that compare favorably despite high
volatility.
It is by now very well known that Bitcoin futures
trading is set to launch on both CME and CBOE this month and the extreme
volatility we've seen in the price of Bitcoin
over the last 48 hours or so is likely representative of this fact.
Users executed
over 10,000
trades via the Future
Trades feature, a number that spiked during the bitcoin price
volatility of the past few weeks.
Bitcoin's recent uptrend has been driven by more than just technicals; it has been accompanied by renewed
volatility in equities after President Trump signaled his readiness for a
trade war
over commodities.
A huge
volatility and sell - off have recently gripped the cryptocurrency market majorly due to a lot of uncertainty
over South Korean government's decision to control and regulate cryptocurrency
trading in the country.
This helps the index avoid the inevitable price
volatility that any newly - listed cryptocurrency endures
over its first days of
trading; especially on a platform as big as GDAX.