Does anyone know a website which provides daily measurement of the volatility of specific UK shares on an intraday basis?
Rob Graham
Share volatility
Sep 12, 2009
6 Replies
Yahoo Finance have a set-up into which you can put the shares you are interested in - "My Portfolio" and watch their prices change every minute or so. Would that suit your needs, I wonder? Go to
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, click on the 'My Portfolio' tab and proceed from there. There's no charge for using it. Prices are delayed by some 20 minutes from LSE dealings. Once you have set up 'My Portfolio' you can click on each share and see a graph showing prices for the past week, 3m., 6m., year, etc. as needed. The page for Barclays as at close on Friday is here:
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(Put in the LSE code in place of BARK.I for other companies usually). . Having opened that up, click on the 1d, 5d, 3m, 6m. under the graph to get graphs showing prices over other periods.
HATH
Thanks DB, but that is not quite what I'm after. I actually use the London Stock Exchange site which provides much the same thing. However, if a share goes up and down wildly for a period of time then goes up and down less so, its volatility will have gone down. I would like an ongoing measure of this.
The reason for this is that I day-trade. At the moment I am using Lloyds Banking Group but recently the volatility is so low that it's not possible to make a profit between the highs and lows. So I want to be able to measure the volatility of other shares to see which ones to move into.
Rob
HATH,
Thanks for that link - brilliant stuff.
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Ricardo, the guy's name is DB, not HATH. HATH is an abbreviation, which I guess stands for "Hope All This Helps".
It was actually a typo. I'd intended to type the readily-recognised "HTH".
In message , DB. writes
Have we witnessed the birth of new mnemonic? ;-)
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