Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Dan Irvine is an investment manager covering market trends. Volatility, a measure of an asset's price fluctuations around its mean ...

NEW YORK, Feb. 5, 2018 — A trader works at the New York Stock Exchange in New York, the United States, on Feb. 5, 2018. U.S. stocks closed sharply lower on Monday, with the Dow plummeting 4.60 percent ...

The huge swings in cryptocurrency prices based on market demand. To many people, crypto represents the ultimate freedom from government and bank control. To others, it is the chance to "get rich quick ...

Sharp, rapid swings in the price of oil can have outsize effects on companies, economies, and global geopolitics. Oil price spikes can stunt economic growth, for example, and a sudden price plunge can ...

Oil majors are bracing for prolonged turbulence in energy markets, which should curb any temptation to ramp up spending after ...

Supercharged by the coronavirus pandemic, supply chain bottlenecks, high inflation, a scorching hot labor market, and aggressive interest-rate hikes, the Morningstar US Market Index—a proxy for the ...

A volatility crush is the term used to describe the result of implied volatility exploding once the market opens higher or lower than where it closed the previous day. For new investors, implied ...

In this article I will walk you through the commonly used but wrong way to think about volatility decay. We'll then walk through an example of volatility decay with realistic numbers. Afterwards, ...

In Know Your Options, I tend to mention Implied Volatility quite often. I’m sure most readers already understand the general idea that options with high IVs are expensive and options with low IVs are ...