Quotes About Volatility

If you are prepared for some risk, junk bonds pay about 5%, but they tend to get whacked when interest rates rise. Same with lower-yielding but higher-quality corporate bonds.

You will see more fluctuation, I believe, in the private cryptocurrency rather than the fiat.

It is hard to have great confidence in predicting what market reactions to Fed decisions will be.

Greece's history in the drachma was an up-and-down history, a roller coaster.

One cannot see any world leader who has got a grip on the financial markets these days. They're too big, too fast. I think that's quite scary.

So ask yourself: "If the stock market drops 25 percent tomorrow, would I be tempted to pull all or some of my money out?" If the answer is yes, you're probably unprepared for the ups and downs of the stock market.

The sting of losing money, for example, often leads investors to pull out of the stock market unwisely when prices dip.

You shouldn't own common stocks if a 50 per cent decrease in their value in a short period of time would cause you acute distress.

I view derivatives as time bombs, both for the parties that deal in them and the economic system.

Life is like a box of Hand grenades,You never know what will blow you to kingdom come

Your instincts might tell you that you'd do better in the second scenario, with steady gains, but you'd be wrong. You can actually make higher returns by investing regularly in a volatile stock market.

You don't want to hesitate to get in the market trying to have perfect timing; instead, use dollar-cost averaging and know that volatility can be your friend

Remember, volatility can be your friend with dollar-cost averaging, and it can also allow for another technique that will keep you on track, "rebalancing

The need to adapt is nothing new; after all, Benjamin Franklin said, "When you are finished changing, you are finished." What is new is how often we need to change, the pace at which we need to move, and the complexity and volatility of the context in which we are operating.

There is no safe haven in today's markets.

Alan White and I spent the next two or three years working together on this. We developed what is known a stochastic volatility model. This is a model where the volatility as well as the underlying asset price moves around in an unpredictable way.

In politics, you're like a toilet seat: you're up one day and down the next.

The indication is that participating in the gig economy requires either a base of capital (a vehicle, a room to rent) or technology skills—both of which are associated with higher levels of education—and less vulnerability to income volatility, since higher levels of education are correlated with salaried and non-tipped jobs.

There is nothing constant in this world but inconsistency.

setting aside the most volatile prices leads to better predictions of overall inflation.

Abnormally good or abnormally bad conditions do not last forever.

Rule 1. Markets are risky. Rule 2. Trouble runs in streaks. Rule 3. Markets have a personality. Rule 4. Markets mislead. Rule 5. Market time is relative

Chances are the movements of the euro as against the dollar will be relatively moderate.

Divorce is healthier than the stock exchange, and way more predictable.