Tracking GDXJ historical volatility helps you see how much VanEck Junior Gold Miners 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, VanEck Junior Gold Miners ETF's HV tells you what really happened. Use our scanner to monitor GDXJ 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 GDXJ 30 day historical volatility is one of the most widely watched readings because it balances responsiveness with stability. Comparing VanEck Junior Gold Miners 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.
VanEck Junior Gold Miners ETF (GDXJ) seeks to replicate as closely as possible, before fees and expenses, the price and yield performance of the MVIS Global Junior Gold Miners Index (MVGDXJTR), which is intended to track the overall performance of small-capitalization companies that are involved primarily in the mining for gold and/or silver.
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 VanEck Junior Gold Miners ETF's historical volatility side-by-side with implied readings across every lookback window, so you can see exactly where GDXJ HV is running hot, cold, or in line. Make the GDXJ 30 day historical volatility — and every other window — work for your edge instead of against it.
