What Makes A Good ETF? The Play’s Not The Only Thing

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1 Volatility, represented by standard deviation measures how dispersed the tracking difference has been around the average. A higher standard deviation indicates that the tracking difference has been spread out over a larger range of values and thus, is more volatile.

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