008: Gary Stone discusses market timing, why it works, the impacts it can have on performance and how to do it correctly to beat the majority of fund managers.
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How to Compare Short Term Volatility to a Longer Period
volatility is a % of the of the index or stock. So for instance, if you em if you got a dollar movement on a ten dollar stock, that's ten % volatility. Just to give an example, that would be very high. You wouldn't typically see that in an index, unless we got a crash going on. But then you'd comper that another time wher there's a ten cent move on a 10 dollar stock. And that ten cent, when i'm talking about ten cents, i'm talkingAbout from the high to the low, averaged over two or three weeks,. Then rather han that being a ten % volatily, is a one % volatility
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