iShares Silver Trust (SLV) Historical Volatility

Tracking SLV historical volatility helps you see how much iShares Silver Trust'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, iShares Silver Trust's HV tells you what really happened. Use our scanner to monitor SLV 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 SLV 30 day historical volatility is one of the most widely watched readings because it balances responsiveness with stability. Comparing iShares Silver Trust'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 iShares Silver Trust (the 'Trust') seeks to reflect generally the performance of the price of silver.The iShares Silver Trust is not an investment company registered under the Investment Company Act of 1940, and therefore is not subject to the same regulatory requirements as mutual funds or ETFs registered under the Investment Company Act of 1940. The Trust is not a commodity pool for purposes of the Commodity Exchange Act. Before making an investment decision, you should carefully consider the risk factors and other information included in the prospectus.

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