Wall Street is mostly bullish on the market's performance for next year, but the midterm elections could throw a wrench into that positive outlook. The coming months already hold a number of other ...

Periods of extreme volatility in the stock market may feel painful for investors — but such periods are generally followed by strong stock returns, if history is a guide, according to market analysts.

From an investment perspective, volatility is typically discussed in two broad categories: historical volatility and implied volatility. The real challenge in investing is not whether investors get ...

First Trust Developed Markets Ex-US AlphaDEX® Fund ETF (FDT) was launched on 4/18/2011 and tracks the Nasdaq AlphaDEX® Developed Markets Ex-US™ Index. FDT has a portfolio of 300 stocks, a 30-day SEC ...

The first step in calculating ATR is to find a series of true range values for a security. The price range of an asset for a given trading day is its high minus its low. To find an asset's true range ...