I recently discussed the ability to use implied volatility to calculate the probability of a successful outcome for any given option trade. To review briefly, the essential concepts a trader must ...

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Every year I hear the same argument coming up among fantasy-obsessed people like you and me. The debate? Taking a top-tier quarterback in the first two rounds. One side of the argument says that ...

For a given data set, standard deviation measures how spread out the numbers are from an average value. This measurement of average variance has a prominent place in many fields related to statistics, ...