First Trust Nasdaq Pharmaceuticals ETF (FTXH) Historical Volatility

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

The First Trust Nasdaq Pharmaceuticals ETF is an exchange-traded fund. The investment objective of the Fund is to seek investment results that correspond generally to the price and yield, before the Fund's fees and expenses, of an index called the Nasdaq US Smart Pharmaceuticals Index. The Fund seeks to replicate the holdings and weightings of the Nasdaq US Smart Pharmaceuticals Index so as to generate performance results 95% correlated to that of the Nasdaq US Smart Pharmaceuticals Index.

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