2015 | OriginalPaper | Chapter
Basic Analysis of Relative Volatility
Authors : John Board, Alfonso Dufour, Yusuf Hartavi, Charles Sutcliffe, Stephen Wells
Published in: Risk and Trading on London’s Alternative Investment Market: The Stock Market for Smaller and Growing Companies
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK
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First, we conducted an analysis of comparable stocks that did not switch markets. A simple ratio analysis comparing the annual volatility of AIM and Main Market stocks showed AIM to be substantially more volatile than the Main Market. The volatility of AIM stocks ranged from 1.3 to 2.7 times that of comparable Main Market stocks, and was particularly high in 2005 and 2006.