Learn how using historical data, instead of standard deviation, offers a more accurate assessment of stock volatility and risk management strategies.
Flickr via Google Images Standard deviation is a concept that's thrown around frequently in finance. So what is it? When working with a quantitative data set, one of the first things we want to know ...
Standard deviation is a widely used metric to ascertain the investment risk of mutual funds. The concept of Standard Deviation becomes important when you invest in a market-linked product like mutual ...
Charlene Rhinehart is a CPA , CFE, chair of an Illinois CPA Society committee, and has a degree in accounting and finance from DePaul University. Vikki Velasquez is a researcher and writer who has ...
In response to my article, Is the Stock Market Too Concentrated?, which relied upon standard-deviation calculations to assess investment risk, a reader wrote: “My problem [with your argument] is ...
There are two formulae for standard deviation. \(s = \sqrt {\frac{{\sum {{{(X - \bar X)}^2}} }}{{n - 1}}}\) (where n is the sample size). The second formula is a re ...