I recently discussed the ability to use implied volatility to calculate the probability of a successful outcome for any given option trade. To review briefly, the essential concepts a trader must ...

Brian Beers is a digital editor, writer, Emmy-nominated producer, and content expert with 15+ years of experience writing about corporate finance & accounting, fundamental analysis, and investing.

Steven Nickolas is a writer and has 10+ years of experience working as a consultant to retail and institutional investors. Gordon Scott has been an active investor and technical analyst or 20+ years.

For a given data set, standard deviation measures how spread out the numbers are from an average value. This measurement of average variance has a prominent place in many fields related to statistics, ...

In response to my article, Is the Stock Market Too Concentrated?, which relied upon standard-deviation calculations to assess investment risk, a reader wrote: “My problem [with your argument] is ...

Paid non-client promotion: Affiliate links for the products on this page are from partners that compensate us (see our advertiser disclosure with our list of partners for more details). However, our ...