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To: Saturn V who wrote (107637)	8/16/2000 2:50:30 PM
From: GVTucker	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 186894

Saturn, you usually measure a stock's volatility by measuring the variance of the price. This has always been the case. You can measure the variance over any period of time that you choose, depending on what kind of information you're looking for. You can calculate variance pretty easily. If you don't have a pricing service that does it for you, then it is easy to input or download numbers into a lotus spreadsheet and run a variance calculation over any period of time you choose. Beta does not measure volatility, but rather it measures relative volatility. A stock could have constant volatility, but if you were measuring in a particularly volatile period for the market, the beta would move all over the place, even thought the volatility didn't change.