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Daily Archive April 4th, 2007

We don’t quite know what we are talking about when we talk about volatility

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COMMON MISUNDERSTANDINGS OF A COMMON MEASURE Dan Goldstein and Nassim Taleb have written a paper called “We don’t quite know what we are talking about when we talk about volatility” which looks at what finance professionals and students do when asked for estimates of standard deviation.In particular, they posed this question: A stock (or a […]