It's important to realize that
volatility measures changes of the price over time, so the relationship between it and delta / gamma is not quite straightforward.
Not exact matches
Looking at monthly Bloomberg data from 1994 to the present,
changes in the VIX Index, a
measure of U.S. equity
volatility, explain nearly 20 % of the variation in the relative return between gold and the S&P 500 Index.
Volatility, as
measured by the Chicago Board Options Exchange
Volatility Index (VIX), was little
changed at 11.7.
To study how and why DEB
changes in
volatility, the researchers
measured properties such as vapor pressures and melting points, probed molecular structure, and ran quantum mechanical computer simulations to model the hydrogenation process.
volatility is
measured as the diff in daily
changes over some period (you get to choose your period, perhaps since the beginning, since a major
change, past 5 years, or something).
Traders use vega to
measure the impact of
changes in the underlying
volatility to the price of an options contract.
Volatility is the
measure of how drastically a market's prices
change.
For example, given that the price return of a bond is determined by the bond's duration and yield
change, a bond portfolio constructed using the
volatility measure of standard deviation of price return could be biased toward bonds with short duration.
Ben Dor, Dynkin, Hyman, Houweling, Leeuwen, and Penninga (2007) demonstrate that spread
changes are proportional to the level of spreads, i.e., the
volatility of percentage spread
change is much more stable than absolute spread
volatility, and therefore they propose that the better
measure of exposure to credit risk is not the contribution to spread duration, but the contribution to DTS.
As you grow more comfortable reading and examining the charts you will learn how to add other tools such as a technical analysis to
measure the rate of market
volatility and
changes in value.
Measured in %
change in price over a given period, high
volatility means unstable asset prices that experience wild, hard - to - predict swings in valuation over the short term.
Volatility is a mathematical
measure of the potential size of likely price
changes.
The other outcome
measures are not included due to
volatility in measurement (counties with small populations see large
changes in their rates) or
changes in how the indicator is
measured over time (the MAP tests have not remained consistent in the last several years).