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  2. What Beta Means: Understanding a Stock’s Risk - AOL

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    For example, if the market is making a big move 20% higher, a stock with a beta of 1.5 will tend to trade up 30%. In this way, an investor can maximize gains in a bullish market by picking up ...

  3. How to use beta to evaluate a stock’s risk - AOL

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    Beta can help give investors an idea of the risk in a given stock, and it’s a useful, if incomplete, way of doing so. Beta values can shift over time because they’re tied to market fluctuations.

  4. Beta (finance) - Wikipedia

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    Beta is the hedge ratio of an investment with respect to the stock market. For example, to hedge out the market-risk of a stock with a market beta of 2.0, an investor would short $2,000 in the stock market for every $1,000 invested in the stock. Thus insured, movements of the overall stock market no longer influence the combined position on ...

  5. Are High Beta Stocks a Smart Buy? - AOL

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    Most investors seek out investments that will give them the biggest gains they can get. High beta stocks are a favorite of many investors who aren't afraid of taking big risks in order to earn jaw ...

  6. Market sentiment - Wikipedia

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    The Acertus Market Sentiment Indicator (AMSI) incorporates five variables (in descending order of weight in the indicator): Price/Earnings Ratio (a measure of stock market valuations); price momentum (a measure of market psychology); Realized Volatility (a measure of recent historical risk); High Yield Bond Returns (a measure of credit risk ...

  7. Alternative beta - Wikipedia

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    A beta below 1 can indicate either an investment with lower volatility than the market, or a volatile investment whose price movements are not highly correlated with the market. An example of the first is a treasury bill: the price does not go up or down a lot, so it has a low beta. An example of the second is gold. The price of gold does go up ...

  8. 11 Best High Beta Stocks To Buy Now - AOL

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    In this article, we discuss 11 best high beta stocks to buy now. If you want to see more stocks in this selection, check out 5 Best High Beta Stocks To Buy Now. Beta, a statistical measure of a ...

  9. Smart beta - Wikipedia

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    Asset managers including BlackRock, Legg Mason, Henderson Rowe, Invesco and WisdomTree all operate smart beta funds. To identify which type of smart beta provides the best fit, qualified institutional investors need to understand the expected return and risk for each of their active, passive, and smart beta allocations.