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In volatility trading, traders try to make profits by speculating on changes in the volatility of the securities they trade, instead of their direction. Depending on the strategy, volatility traders make profits when the volatility increases, decreases or stays flat.

Traditionally, volatility trading requires investing in the options market by buying and selling options. For example, a volatility trader can establish an at-the-money straddle (a put and a call option at the same strike price) position to gain exposure to volatility. The strategy doesn't care which direction the market or the underlying security moves. The position becomes profitable only when the implied volatility of the underlying security increases.


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Average Stock Standard Deviation by Industry
by QuantShare, uploaded one month ago

Standard deviation is often used as a measure to estimate future moves of an asset such as a stock (volatility). Although, price changes do not have a normal distribution, some technical analysts assume that it is the case and use this assumption to predict future price move. If the price...
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Keltner/Bollinger Bands Squeeze
by Brian Brown, uploaded several months ago

The Bollinger bands squeeze is a volatility indicator that tries to determine periods of low or high volatility in a price series. This technical indicator signals only the timing, not the direction of the trade, and for this reason, it must be used in conjunction with other technical or fundamental...
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VIX Volatility Index Statistics per Day of Week
by Mike, uploaded several months ago

The VIX symbol stands for the Chicago Board Options Exchange Volatility Index and it is a measure of the S&P500 stock index options that have a maturity of 30 days. In other words, it measures the expected market volatility for the next 30 days and this is why it is...
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McGinley Dynamic Indicator
by The trader, uploaded several months ago

One of the major problems of moving averages such as the simple moving average is its lack of quick response to price. The higher the lookback period of the moving average, the slower the response to price movements. Other moving averages, such as the exponential moving average (more weight is...
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Ratio of Stocks above and below Bollinger Bands
by Brian Brown, uploaded several months ago

This composite calculates the ratio of stocks trading above their upper Bollinger band to stocks trading below their lower Bollinger band.

The number of stocks trading above/below their upper/lower Bollinger band is computed by comparing the close price to the 20-bar "BbandsUpper"/"BbandsLower" function.
A value of 60 tells us that among stocks...

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Traders Dynamic Index - TDI Indicator
by Caleb, uploaded several months ago

The Traders Dynamic Index uses trend direction, momentum and market volatility to determine market conditions. This indicator uses relative strength index, simple moving average, double exponential moving average and standard deviation to generate five time-series.

The function displays those time-series and returns the TDI or traders dynamic index.
The parameters of...

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Standard Deviation Ratio
by Caleb, uploaded several months ago

Standard Deviation Ratio or SDR is a technical analysis indicator based on two standard deviations; one using a longer period that the other.

The SDR is measured by taking the ratio of the short-term standard deviation (function: SDDEV) to the long-term standard deviation. The ratio tends to stay below level 1;...

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VIDYA - Variable Index Dynamic Average
by GS, uploaded several months ago

Variable Index Dynamic Average (VIDYA) is a special moving average which was developed by Tushar Chande. The complete details about this technical indicator can be found in %u201CThe New Technical Trader by Tushar Chande and Stanley Kroll%u201D.

VIDYA is essentially a dynamic exponential moving average wherein the market volatility is...

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Volatility Quality Index
by QuantShare, uploaded several months ago

The idea behind the volatility quality index is to discern bad and good volatility in order to create a better volatility indicator that can identify better trade opportunities.

This trading indicator is based on the true range and it is calculated using the latter indicator plus the open, close, high and...

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Index of dispersion - Variance-to-Mean Ratio - VMR
by The trader, uploaded several months ago

As with the coefficient of variation, the index of dispersion is a ratio that is used to measure the dispersion of a probability distribution. It tells us whether prices or technical indicator values are dispersed or clustered compared to a standard statistical model.

Index of dispersion, also called dispersion index or...

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