Vanguard Short-Term Bond ETF (BSV) Historical Volatility

Tracking BSV historical volatility helps you see how much Vanguard Short-Term Bond ETF's stock price has actually moved over past periods, giving you a baseline to judge whether current option premiums are fair, cheap, or expensive. While implied volatility tells you what the market expects, Vanguard Short-Term Bond ETF's HV tells you what really happened. Use our scanner to monitor BSV 30 day historical volatility alongside longer lookback windows and spot the moments when realized and implied diverge.

Historical volatility is the annualized standard deviation of an underlying's past returns, typically measured over rolling windows like 10, 20, 30, or 60 days. The BSV 30 day historical volatility is one of the most widely watched readings because it balances responsiveness with stability. Comparing Vanguard Short-Term Bond ETF's HV to its implied volatility reveals the volatility risk premium — when IV sits well above HV, option sellers tend to have an edge; when HV runs hot relative to IV, buyers may be underpaying for movement.

Seeks to track the performance of the Bloomberg U.S. 1–5 Year Government/Credit Float Adjusted Index, a market-weighted bond index that covers investment-grade bonds with a dollar-weighted average maturity of 1 to 5 years.Invests in U.S. government, high-quality (investment-grade) corporate, and investment-grade international dollar-denominated bonds.Follows a passively managed, index sampling approach.

Sizing a long premium trade, modeling a covered call, or hunting volatility arbitrage all come back to one question: how much has the stock actually moved? Our scanner puts Vanguard Short-Term Bond ETF's historical volatility side-by-side with implied readings across every lookback window, so you can see exactly where BSV HV is running hot, cold, or in line. Make the BSV 30 day historical volatility — and every other window — work for your edge instead of against it.