What Is This Thing Called Volatility, Really?
“What is this thing called love, this funny thing called love?” is Cole Porter’s well-sung query, asking the Lord in Heaven above: “Why should it make a fool of me?” Recent market volatility has had many investors asking a similar question about the investment market. “Stock market volatility is a great way to test your nerves as an investor,” writes Leslie Albrecht in MarketWatch.com. The Volatility 101 lesson here for investors, as Albrecht correctly points out, is this: “There’s a [...]