While shares of stocks have offered an average return around 9 % over the last couple of decades,
the volatility around that average has been 20 % over the last ten years.
Not exact matches
Low
volatility stocks have been outperforming the
average stock since the beginning of 2015, with peak outperformance coming
around the second quarter of 2016.
SD is a measure of
volatility — or more specifically, how much returns vary
around the
average.
By inspection, it's easy to see that the two major stock indices that Canadian investors will benchmark themselves against have
volatilities between 7 % and 19 %, with the
average likely being somewhere
around 14 %.
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.
I don't always get the best price (if I was buying HHC I would have waited until mid Nov and purchased
around $ 45) but I feel like large sellers pummel stocks and often give me better
average prices and confidence to buy more shares if I wait until
volatility is lower.
The platform said it generated returns for users using Bitconnnect's trading bot and «
volatility trading software», which usually
averaged around 1 % per day.