Editor’s note: The next president is in for a rough welcome to the Oval Office given the list of immediate crises and slow-burning policy challenges, both foreign and domestic. What should Washington ...

T he Fed is taking the training wheels off the economic cycle and the market is responding nervously. Any new hurdle to sustainable global growth seems to be interpreted as an unsurmountable obstacle.

Jeff Kohler has 20+ years of experience as a trader/analyst. He currently runs TradingAddicts.com, providing market insight and analysis to investors. Michael Boyle is an experienced financial ...

Samantha (Sam) Silberstein, CFP®, CSLP®, EA, is an experienced financial consultant. She has a demonstrated history of working in both institutional and retail environments, from broker-dealers to ...

When stocks make big moves, volatility spikes. Understanding how to capitalize on volatility using options can give you a trading edge. Every time you take an options position, you are taking a ...

Volatility in forex trading is a large movement in the market resulting in a spike. The range – which is the difference between the low and the high – becomes high. Volatility can either be in the ...

Annualized volatility is calculated as standard deviation times square root of periods. High annualized volatility indicates greater price variability and potential risk. Investors use annualized ...

With investments, volatility refers to changes in an asset's or market's price — especially as measured against its usual behavior or a benchmark. Volatility is often expressed as a percentage: If a ...