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Covariance

How two positions move together; why portfolio risk is not just the weighted sum of position risks.

In depth

How two positions move together. It's why portfolio risk is not the weighted sum of position risks — correlation between holdings either compounds or cancels risk.

Formula

Cov(r_i, r_j) = E[(r_i − r̄_i)(r_j − r̄_j)]

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