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That's real vision.com forward slash free. Some people trade commodities, while others they trade currencies. The number of financial instruments you could trade are virtually limitless,

but what you may not realize is that everyone trades volatility, yet so few understand what it means and why it matters.

This week we speak with Steve Diggle, founder of Volpus Investment Management

whose fund made over three billion dollars

when everyone else was losing everything.

And why?

Because he understood volatility and how to wield it.

Essentially what happened was a total and complete

change in perception of risk from non-existent

to ubiquitous and permanent. And that was caused by the fact that when prices started to fall you had forced sellers.

But volatility is not just restricted to financial markets. We also speak with a current

volatility hedge fund manager whose understanding of volatility runs deeper

than the flashing lights on your Bloomberg terminal. Chris Cole, co-founder of Artemis Capital Management, explains how

volatility is a fundamental expression of nature and our lives. I see volatility

as an instrument of truth and in that sense it's it's not fear it's not the Vix index

it's not a statistic or something that can be derived by an abstract formula.

Volatility, regardless of how it's measured,

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