Volatility

Volatility measures how sharply an asset's price swings around its trend, and is usually expressed as the annualised standard deviation of its returns. It is the most widely used risk measure, though it has a known flaw: it treats sharp rises exactly like falls, and only the latter keep investors awake.

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