standard deviation
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Z-scores measure a price relative to its history – the more technical way of saying that is how many standard deviations away a data point is from its average.
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And yet the VIX finished Friday above 27, a level that is roughly one standard deviation above the index’s long-term average.
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According to Bespoke, a sector index is extremely overbought when it is trading more than two standard deviations above its 50-day moving average, which underscores the speed of this shift.
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On that day, the S&P 500 was trading in overbought territory, which Bespoke and many others define as one standard deviation above the index’s 50-day moving average.
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Suddenly they don’t need to know about tricky concepts like standard deviation or Sharpe ratios.
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