How Expected Return and Standard Deviation Impact Your Portfolio

Expected return and standard deviation can help you analyze investment portfolios. Learn their differences, uses, and ...

Measure Stock Volatility with Historical Data: A Practical Approach

Learn how using historical data, instead of standard deviation, offers a more accurate assessment of stock volatility and risk management strategies.

Beyond standard deviation: How skewness and kurtosis capture market extremes

Standard deviation, while common, inadequately captures investment risk due to its equal treatment of gains and losses and ...
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Standard Deviation: In Defense of an Often-Dismissed Investing Metric

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 ...
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Here's What Nerds Mean When They Say 'Standard Deviation'

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Statistical skills: Video playlist

An animated guide explaining how the standard devition can give you a clearer picture of a sample than averages alone. An example involving zoo keepers and some very dangerous animals demonstrates ...