AdvisorShares Focused Equity ETF

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AdvisorShares Focused Equity ETF (CWS) Historical Volatility

CWS 30-day historical volatility is 12%. This ranks in the 28th percentile of readings over the past year.

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Tracking CWS historical volatility helps you see how much AdvisorShares Focused Equity 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, AdvisorShares Focused Equity ETF's HV tells you what really happened. Use our scanner to monitor CWS 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 CWS 30 day historical volatility is one of the most widely watched readings because it balances responsiveness with stability. Comparing AdvisorShares Focused Equity 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.

Complement to any Broad-Based Index Fund — CWS’s strategy seeks to avoid the fundamentally weak companies that index-based funds generally hold and only invest in those perceived as “first in class” firms. Low Turnover — CWS’s strategy is focused on the long term. That’s why CWS aims for a buy-and-hold strategy, trading as infrequently as possible and holding for as long as it can. CWS believes that a disciplined buy-and-hold strategy is ideal for riding out market storms. Innovative Fulcrum Fee Structure — CWS’s Portfolio Strategist’s manager fee is directly tied to performance: outperformance is rewarded with a larger management fee; underperformance is penalized with a smaller management fee.

Disciplined Alpha Seeking Strategy — CWS is focused on a core group of what we believe are outstanding firms, offering investors a simple way to get instant exposure to a concentrated equity portfolio of companies with proven competitive advantages.

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 AdvisorShares Focused Equity ETF's historical volatility side-by-side with implied readings across every lookback window, so you can see exactly where CWS HV is running hot, cold, or in line. Make the CWS 30 day historical volatility — and every other window — work for your edge instead of against it.

IV vs HV
Implied Volatility (IV) vs Historical Volatility (HV) over the past month.

As of September 17, 2026

IV - HV Difference
Difference between IV and HV over time. Positive values indicate IV > HV.

As of September 17, 2026

See how volatility has moved over time

Track CWS historical volatility, spot where IV and realized volatility diverge, and find options that are priced in your favor right now.

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