Not exact matches
This wasn't unexpected, since the market was rising in just the right mix
of conditions:
Volatility as
measured by the Cboe's index was at historic lows, the GOP was set to pass the most comprehensive corporate - tax reform in decades, and economies
around the world were in growth mode.
Since the oldest
of these ETFs, SPLV, has been
around for only 29 months,
volatility and Sharpe Ratio
measures are not yet available from Morningstar or other providers that require at least three years
of a fund's history.
A popular
measure of stock market
volatility, VIX, was at 14 at the beginning
of 2017, and
around 12 when I made the prediction.
SD is a
measure of volatility — or more specifically, how much returns vary
around the average.
This is in contrast to most
of what we read and hear that risk is
measured based on the
volatility of an asset, or how much it bounces
around.
And to quantify that
volatility in a mutual fund ETF or portfolio
of investments, investors typically turn to standard deviation, a
measure that calculates how much an investment's annual return fluctuates
around its long - term average annual return.
Each panel displays Pearson's correlations between one
measure of breed popularity (total number
of dogs, breed
volatility, rates
of increase and decrease
around popularity peaks) and the 14 behavioral variables assessed by the C - BARQ questionnaire (Table 1).
With the monthly historical
volatility of the S&P 500 since 1950
measured at 14 %, this means Bitcoin is
around 4.25 times more volatile than the S&P 500.