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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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    By definition, the market as a whole has a beta of 1, and everything else is defined in relation to that: ... targeting high-beta stocks for potentially higher returns with more risk, or low-beta ...

  4. 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 ...

  5. 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 ...

  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. Portfolio Beta vs. Stock Beta: What's the Difference?

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    Investors, whether beginner or seasoned professionals, all have a threshold for risk. Some prefer to play it safe and favor a low-risk investment plan while others are more advantageous with a ...

  9. Risk aversion (psychology) - Wikipedia

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    Most theoretical analyses of risky choices depict each option as a gamble that can yield various outcomes with different probabilities. [2] Widely accepted risk-aversion theories, including Expected Utility Theory (EUT) and Prospect Theory (PT), arrive at risk aversion only indirectly, as a side effect of how outcomes are valued or how probabilities are judged. [3]