Question

What is Market Volatility

Answer 1

Its how the overall market moves up and down. For example the Dow Jones dropped .9%. The Dow Jones is an index that seeks to track the overall performance of the U.S. Stock market, so some stock gained and some lost, but overall the market was down.

Answer 2

In finance, volatility is a measure for variation of price of a financial instrument over time. Historic volatility is derived from time series of past market prices.

Answer 3

Market volatility are extreme ups and downs in short periods of time.