History of IV Rank
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Tom and Tony go into the history of the creation of IV Rank and how powerful the metric is to individual investors today.
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The simplified Expected Move formula “Stock Price ✕ (IV / 100) ✕ SquareRoot(N / 365)” allows for traders to easily calculate the market’s expectation for a particular stock to move a certain amount over any number of days. Remember, implied volatility is the driver of expected move, so when IV of...
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