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For traders, this new index, the Solana Volatility Implied Volatility Index (SVIV), ushers in a new era of assessing and interacting with the market.
Volmex Finance has introduced the first implied volatility index for Solana’s SOL token. The crypto derivatives protocol revealed its new innovation on Tuesday, as a way to measure the expected price fluctuations of the world’s fifth-largest cryptocurrency in terms of market value.
For traders, this new index, the Solana Volatility Implied Volatility Index (SVIV), ushers in a new era of assessing and interacting with the market.
Understanding the SVIV Index
The SVIV index is built in a way that measures the expected volatility for Solana’s SOL token for the next 14 days. According to the official announcement from Volmex Finance, traders will be able to use this index to track potential price swings, both upward and downward, for no more than the next two weeks.
The SVIV index, which is poised to provide precisioned insights into SOL’s volatility, will come in handy for investors and traders looking to find their way in the often confusing cryptocurrency markets.
As it were, volatility, in financial terms, often refers to the degree of price variation over
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