Wes /wes/ [1 syll.] as a boys' name is of Old English origin, and the name Wes means western meadow. Wes is an alternate form of Wesley (Old English): place name.Compare last name Wess.es entered the list in 1960-1969 and reached its peak rank of #765 in the U.S. then, but is not listed currently. (Top 1000 Birth Names Records, 2014). Below is a graphed comparison of the popularity of Wes and associated names. Prominent related forms of Wes are Wesley (#130 a year ago) and Westley.
Volatility is up-and-down movement of the market. It's usually measured by the standard deviation from the expectation. If you look at a day, the movement is typically up, but not by very much. Any movement up or down from its expectation is the volatility. Historically, the volatility of the stock market is roughly 20% a year and 5.8% a month, but volatility keeps on changing, so we go through periods of high volatility and low volatility. The biggest driver of volatility is a drop in the market.
Volatility tends to decline as the stock market rises and increase as the stock market falls. When volatility increases, risk increases and returns decrease. Risk is represented by the dispersion of returns around the mean.To find out how the VIX measures volatility, read Getting a VIX on Market Direction.). Volatility works well to help identify market bottoms based on high volatility. For long-term investors, it also does a pretty good job of helping to identify that the stock market is at or near a top, when volatility is very low.