Tracking VDC historical volatility helps you see how much Vanguard Consumer Staples 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 Consumer Staples ETF's HV tells you what really happened. Use our scanner to monitor VDC 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 VDC 30 day historical volatility is one of the most widely watched readings because it balances responsiveness with stability. Comparing Vanguard Consumer Staples 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 a benchmark index that measures the investment return of stocks in the consumer staples sector. Passively managed, using a full-replication strategy when possible and a sampling strategy if regulatory constraints dictate. Includes stocks of companies that provide direct-to-consumer products that, based on consumer spending habits, are considered nondiscretionary.
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 Consumer Staples ETF's historical volatility side-by-side with implied readings across every lookback window, so you can see exactly where VDC HV is running hot, cold, or in line. Make the VDC 30 day historical volatility — and every other window — work for your edge instead of against it.
