Statistics is a field which is fast expanding as a career for students and number of brilliant students are getting more than 1 Crore per annum just for data crunching.
Thus it makes sense to know the volatility of Nifty and Bank Nifty and our analysis has showed that Bank Nifty is more volatile than Nifty.
- Nifty has more than +2% variation on a single day in upside direction– No of days is 10
- Nifty has more than +2% variation on a single day in downward direction – No of days is 5.
Stats shows that Bank Nifty has more number of days as compared to Nifty in light of above two facts as illustrated with bullets for Nifty upside and downside days.
Verdict
Thus year 2012 has seen that Bank Nifty is more volatile than Nifty and same can be also attributed to looming financial crisis on world markets ranging from Greece, Italy, Spain and finally Fiscal cliff of USA.