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Pandas volatility calculation for Apple Inc
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volatility_apple.py
# compute volatility using Pandas rolling and std methods, the trading days is set to 252 days
TRADING_DAYS = 252
returns = np.log(df['Close']/df['Close'].shift(1))
returns.fillna(0, inplace=True)
volatility = returns.rolling(window=TRADING_DAYS).std()*np.sqrt(TRADING_DAYS)
fig = plt.figure(figsize=(15, 7))
ax1 = fig.add_subplot(1, 1, 1)
volatility.plot(ax=ax1)
ax1.set_xlabel('Date')
ax1.set_ylabel('Volatility')
ax1.set_title('Annualized volatility for Apple Inc')
plt.show()
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