Best Stocks for Volatility
August 05, 2011 at 09:52 AM EDT
The CBOE Volatility Index (VIX), the stock market's gauge of investors' fears soared 35% yesterday and closed above 31 to its highest level in more than a year or since July 1, 2010. We are definitely observing some wild times on Wall St amidst new economic worries worldwide.� Here is a useful tool to help measure the volatility, and risk, of individual stocks with one useful factor in managing equity risk: Beta.
