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Real Investing Always Ignores Volatility
Why the conflation of day-trading, risk, and volatility with “investing” is going to kill true value.
Here is a definition for risk: a situation involving exposure to danger.
Here is a definition for volatility: liability to change rapidly and unpredictably, especially for the worse.
The definitions can’t be accepted, primarily because they differ depending on where you look.
We can find those definitions on Investopedia, too.
Risk: Risk is defined in financial terms as the chance that an outcome or investment’s actual gains will differ from an expected outcome or return. Risk includes the possibility of losing some or all of an original investment.
Volatility: Volatility is a statistical measure of the dispersion of returns for a given security or market index. In most cases, the higher the volatility, the riskier the security.
Rebalancing, volatility harvesting, reallocation. These are all funny words built on shaky or fully ungrounded axioms.
Risk is the likelihood that the investment in question is bad. It is the numerical value that tells you whether you will lose a significant portion of the capital you put into the equity in…
