His approach is to estimate volatility using an EGARCH model and employ leveraged funds to adjust portfolio leverage.

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Although Silver Wheaton is not a mining company, its business model makes it very vulnerable to volatility in the prices of precious metals.

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Using a standardized measure, the model spits out a numerical ranking of volatility so investors can make apples-to-apples comparisons.

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However generalist or flawed this model may be, to me low volatility plus trend is a strong indicator of the strength of the trend.

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They understood and calculated volatility, perhaps not so precisely as the Black-Scholes model that later garnered a Nobel Prize in economics, but good enough to get by and not misprice quotes on the puts and calls they made markets in.

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The "capital asset pricing model" identified one factor, beta, or a stock's volatility relative to the index, as pivotal to the stock's returns.

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Title companies are one example of a business model positioned to capitalize on improving real estate conditions and have typically carried with them lower volatility than the stocks of homebuilders.

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