J.B. Maverick is an active trader, commodity futures broker, and stock market analyst 17+ years of experience, in addition to 10+ years of experience as a finance writer and book editor.

Though stock charts often highlight how volatile prices can be — especially over short time periods — keep in mind that the ...

The CBOE VIX index, the option-derived measure of expected S&P 500 volatility that's known as Wall Street's fear gauge, is trading around 15.5. That's well below its long run average of 19.5 and ...

On a chart, big fund buying helps a potential stock market leader bottom out after ... of 6 on a scale of zero (ultra steady) to 99 (hyper-volatile) bespeaks the company's earnings power.

Since I began working in the financial services industry in 1987, I’ve noticed that investors seem to continually feel that the current stock market has been more volatile than it was in the ...

Nvidia has been rebounding in February after experiencing significant volatility amid concerns over a potential slowdown in ...