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Screen stocks that had more than 10% change over a 52 week period
On Google finance, the stock screener allows me to screen for stocks where the 52w price range is above or below a certain %.
52 week price change (%) The percent change in the price over the past
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Why do more floating shares mean less volatility for the stock?
In the article Investopedia explains 'Floating Stock', it states:
The more shares of floating stock are available, the less volatile a
company's stock price is likely to be, and vice versa
I ...
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How is the price of VXX determined?
I'm trying to understand how VXX works (the prospectus on Barclay's Ipath). It says that it has a rolling position in futures (1 month and 2 month). Does that mean that it buys and sells contracts ...
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What does it mean to long convexity of options?
In this Bloomberg video, Curnett talks about volatility and the convexity of options. Specifically, he says;
"The spread between the VIX sitting there at 20 for a period of time and this realized ...
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Why did Apple instantly become the most volatile stock in the US?
I fully understand that it went up quickly by a lot, and have no problem with the recent drop. But why did it seem to instantly become so volatile? It seems like every day it's up or down 2% or ...
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How to see an option chain's implied volatility skew
Are there any inexpensive tools, web-sites or services you know of where one can see:
a) current implied volatility skew for an option chain
b) historic implied volatility skew
Thanks
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What is volatility drag?
Given a leverage portfolio, what does the term volatility drag mean? And how does it affect the value of the portfolio?
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Is it possible to quantify the probability of sudden big movements for a high-volume stock?
As an example: Over this past weekend, from Friday close to Monday open, Netflix (NFLX) dropped about 36% in stock price. Going back to July, Netflix was trading near $300, and now it is at about ...
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What is the UK equivalent of the VIX volatility index?
The VIX is a measurement of volatility in US markets. What about UK markets?
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What to make of historical stock market volatility?
I looked on Google Finance today at the DJIA, and kept backing up the time window until I saw the whole display they had, from 1971 until today (Oct 2011).
It seemed to me that the volatility--the ...
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How to make money from a downward European market?
The trader Alessio Rastani speaks in a BBC interview about the development of the Euro zone and his predictions are quite severe. He predicts a crash within the next 12 months but is also telling ...
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Why is silver so volatile compared to the S&P 500?
As an example, silver took a 9.4% hit on 9/22/2011, which was a bad market day -- the Dow dropped over 3.5%.
The conventional wisdom is that precious metals like silver are a hedge against a falling ...
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how does one see the CBOE VIX index on Google Finance?
How does one see the CBOE VIX index on Google Finance? What is a symbol I can use?
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How do I research, analyze, and choose the right mutual fund for a roth ira?
I recently opened a Roth IRA in the USA and I'm new to investing.
How do I research a mutual fund and what aspects should I analyze to figure out if it fits my investment strategy (I might not even ...
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Why are the prices of some commodities (e.g. oil) more volatile than others?
Why are the prices of some commodities (e.g. oil) more volatile than others?
