OTC Markets head Cromwell Coulson warned investors to exercise extra caution when selecting stocks in a highly
volatile sector such as blockchain.
They also act as a conservative cornerstone to your portfolio, letting you then add shares from more
volatile sectors such as the high - tech industry — the next sector we're going to purchase from in Module 2.
Not exact matches
The S&P 500 eked out a small gain while the Dow declined after a
volatile trading session on Wednesday, with weakness in
sectors such as consumer staples and financials offsetting strong gains in the energy and industrial indexes.
In late October, I noted a condition that we characterize as a Whipsaw Trap - which essentially involves a breakdown in a broad set of market internals, followed by a recovery driven by some of the more
volatile components (
sectors such as financials and transportation stocks are good examples).
Funds with a single
sector focus (
such as real estate) will typically be more
volatile than funds which invest broadly across markets
(Industrial
sectors such as oil and gas production don't emit ozone directly; rather, they emit compounds —
such as nitrogen oxides and
volatile organic compounds — that get converted to ozone in the atmosphere.)
A
sector - based ETF
such as one that tracks resource stocks may be more
volatile.
You can choose to invest in a single asset class,
such as global shares, or a specific
sector,
such as mining shares, but this will usually mean your returns are much more
volatile so you may have big gains one year and big losses the next.