Discover how to harness volatility measurements like standard deviation and beta to enhance your investment strategy and ...

Adam Hayes, Ph.D., CFA, is a financial writer with 15+ years Wall Street experience as a derivatives trader. Besides his extensive derivative trading expertise, Adam is an expert in economics and ...

The VIX (officially, the CBOE Volatility Index) closed the day before this writing at 13.77 and as of this writing, is down even further, to 13.39. It’s not an all-time low, but the index closed ...

Emerging markets were in the midst of an impressive rally leading up to the U.S. presidential election, partially because of strengthening currencies and diminishing worries about China. From January ...

This strategy has had a good track record. During the trailing 15- and 10-year periods through March 2016, this fund's underlying index generated about 400 basis points of annualized outperformance ...

CNN’s Fear & Greed Index is a way to gauge stock market movements and whether stocks are fairly priced. The index uses seven market indicators to help answer the question: What emotion is driving the ...