Discover how standard deviation calculates investment risk and market volatility, helping investors make informed decisions.

Standard deviation, while common, inadequately captures investment risk due to its equal treatment of gains and losses and assumption of symmetry. Skewness and kurtosis offer crucial insights, ...

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