Some financial journalists love to talk about the stock market like it's a giant casino. Whatever gets them a rating, right?
Well, price "action" just sounds sexier than whatever index has climbed 0.23% since its open an hour ago. "Price action" = price movement. That is, the stock did not open at 10.42 and just sit there, not moving all day long like a Congressman. It acted, or had action.
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Finance: What is Volatility?77 Views
In finance allah shmoop what is volatility beta this thing
that's the symbol for volatility on the street we mean
the wall one not the mean one and it is
so commonly used that the in crowd members just say
beta when they're referring to volatility unless they're from tennessee
in which case they say you ve all y'all all
right so here's a siri's of stock prices stamped each
day that has lo ve all or low beta and
here's a siri's that has high beta dead man's pulse
versus rocky mountains Well what makes a stock volatile uncertainty
Think about it this way If everyone knew for sure
what a given stocks earnings would be for the next
ten years quarter by quarter and they also knew what
the overall markets average earnings would be in a few
other things like revenue growth and world conditions and we're
going to be war inflation there wouldn't be a lot
of guesswork The quote right unquote price today would be
thirty two dollars eighty three cents and the quote right
unquote rate of compounding would be eight percent in the
stock would slowly go up but this rate but in
non disney land riel life well nobody really knows much
of anything So stockcharts look like this and nerve endings
of wall street traders look like this Neither of them 00:01:19.771 --> [endTime] looked much like this chart So that's all you
