Before long, floor boss Sam Rogers (Kevin Spacey) is hearing all about
the historical volatility index.
This is quite helpful, especially if you've never heard of a «
historical volatility index limit» and wouldn't know what it was even if you had.
He's a risk manager at an unnamed Wall Street securities firm in 2008, sitting at his desk, frowning at
a historical volatility index.
He wants to know all about
this historical volatility index.
Not exact matches
This rally has been so strong that many global
indices have gone up in a straight line, registering gains up to 300 % over that time period with
volatility hitting
historical lows.
For most of the first three months the VIX
Index, a common measure of equity
volatility, traded somewhere between 11 and 13, well below its
historical average of 20.
The VIX, a measure of the expected equity - market
volatility as determined by put and call prices on S&P 500
Index options, trailed lower in 2017 and remains well below its
historical average.
The above
historical performance figures from Morningstar indicate that the fund had a higher
volatility (expressed as a standard deviation of returns) and underperformed the S&P 500 ®
index, its best - fit benchmark, on a risk - adjusted basis (Sharpe Ratio) in both the three - and five - year trailing periods.
The following table presents
historical return data for ETFs tracking the MSCI EAFE Minimum
Volatility Index.
Volatility based: Here you can use the 100 - day historical volatility of the S&P 500 index and then use a cut
Volatility based: Here you can use the 100 - day
historical volatility of the S&P 500 index and then use a cut
volatility of the S&P 500
index and then use a cut off value.
Using the 10 - year U.S. Treasury Bond yield as the proxy for interest rates, Exhibit 1 shows the
historical performance of the S&P 500 Low
Volatility and S&P 500
indices in periods of significantly increased interest rates.
In this blog, we review the
historical performance of the S&P 500 Low
Volatility Index to the S&P 500 in rising interest rate periods to confirm whether or not this is the case.
Well a «bit of
volatility» is maybe downplaying what we've witnessed in recent weeks with the VIX or «fear
index» rocketing higher from a near
historical low of 9 in early January to a peak of 37 in early February.
For reference, the
volatility target is about a third of the
historical volatility of the U.S. stock market and roughly the same as the
historical volatility of the Barclays Aggregate Bond
Index (though in recent years the bond index's volatility has dropped to about
Index (though in recent years the bond
index's volatility has dropped to about
index's
volatility has dropped to about 3 %).
The CBOE
Volatility Index (VIX)-- the so - called «fear gauge» derived from the implied volatility of S&P 500 options — has been closing out the year near its historical lows, miles away
Volatility Index (VIX)-- the so - called «fear gauge» derived from the implied
volatility of S&P 500 options — has been closing out the year near its historical lows, miles away
volatility of S&P 500 options — has been closing out the year near its
historical lows, miles away from fear.
The weighting of the individual companies in the reference
index EURO iSTOXX High Dividend Low
Volatility 50 is based on the
historical one - year dividend yields whereby each company is limited to a maximum weighting of three percent and only a maximum of ten companies per country can be included.
Mortgage
Indexes Market characteristics, volatility, current values and historical graphs of the most common ARM i
Indexes Market characteristics,
volatility, current values and
historical graphs of the most common ARM
indexesindexes.
The
index tracks 12 commodity futures contracts and determines their position sizes based on their
historical volatility.
Historical volatility of the pure style
indices has been 21 - 22 % compared to 16 % for the market.
Historical Volatility data, Implied
Volatility data, and the Current Implied
Volatility Percentile for all stock,
index and futures options updated weekly.
The following table presents
historical return data for ETFs tracking the CEMP International 500
Volatility Weighted
Index.