Interactive Brokers and historical volatility

Discussion in 'Retail Brokers' started by Maverick2608, Jan 6, 2016.

  1. Does anyone know how Interactive Brokers calculate historical volatility?

    The result is quite different from Bloomberg.
     
  2. IB use 20-day exponentially weighted moving average calculation for futures historical volatilities. For stocks IB use GarmanKlass simple moving average calculator that takes into consideration high/low/open/close values for the past 30 days.

    IB has not yet informed me, which formula they use for ETFs like SPY.
     
  3. For ETFs IB also use Garman-Klass simple moving average calculator that takes into consideration high/low/open/close values for the past 30 days.