Zeev's Turnips Patch-No Politics (ZEEV)

[Train Guy]

Hm, looking at a daily 3 month chart, just a rough estimate there was about $38 of up and down movement in NFI and that's not taking into account any intraday movement. Just the broad up and down swings. Now let's say you are a really bad swing trader and only manged to capture 10% of those moves. So over 3 months you got $3.80. We'll say you gave 50% to your uncle just because you are nice. You have to cough up 15% on that dividend, so the trading hit you for an extra 35% leaving you with only $2.47. Last I checked $2.47 is bigger than $1.35. At the national labs where you hang out, is $2.47 bigger than $1.35?

So while you were twiddling your fingers being really smug it appears you left $5600 on the table compared to a really bad trader.

This got me to thinking if there is measure of volatility. Beta sort of is, but not really what I'm looking for. After looking around, didn't really find anything. Did find this that I didn't know.

Volume - The number of trades in a security over a period of time. On a chart, volume is usually represented as a histogram (vertical bars) below the price chart. The NYSE and Nasdaq measure volume differently. For every buyer, there is a seller: 100 shares bought = 100 shares sold. The NYSE would count this as one trade and as 100 shares of volume. However, the Nasdaq would count each side of the trade and as 200 shares volume.