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Volatility is the jump, not the direction
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Volatility is the jump, not the direction
is how jumpy is — how wide the path swings — not whether the path goes up or down. A name can climb for a year and still be loud. A name can sit still and still be dangerous if the next jump is huge. Up-and-down is the weather. Jumpiness is how hard the wind blows.
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is how jumpy is — how wide the path swings — not whether the path goes up or down. A name can climb for a year and still be loud. A name can sit still and still be dangerous if the next jump is huge. Up-and-down is the weather. Jumpiness is how hard the wind blows.
It is not a forecast. It is not a grade of the business. It is not a reason this classroom will tell you to buy or sell. It is a reason to size down when the is loud. A 2% move on a quiet large share is a different animal than a 2% move on a thin coin. Same percent. Different stomach.
People mix the word with “the market is going to crash.” That is a slogan. can be high on the way up (a bull run is loud) and high on the way down (an air pocket is loud). Calm can still hide a gap tomorrow. We will not time that gap.
On this paper desk you already felt a version of it: quiet barely wiggles; a bull run and an air pocket tick faster. That is sped-up teaching, not public and not . Hypothetical. Look. Do not buy.
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