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Volatility

The relative rate at which the price of a security moves up and down. Volatility is found by calculating the annualized Standard deviation of daily change in price. If the price of a stock moves up and down rapidly over Short time periods, it has High volatility. If the price almost never changes, it has Low volatility.

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