Answered from live data · 22 Aug 2026, 18:30 UTC
How volatile is silver?
58.6% annualised
Measured across 26 years of price history, silver has an annualised volatility of 58.6%. In plain terms: a one-standard-deviation year moves it roughly that far from its average path in either direction.
The detail
Day to day, the average close-to-close move over the last 14 sessions has been $4.87 per gram.
The Bollinger band width — a common short-term volatility gauge — is currently 23.2% of the 20-day average.
Volatility is symmetric. It measures the size of moves, not their direction, and a high reading is not a warning about falls specifically.
How this answer is produced
This page is generated from the same live measurements as the
Silver technical analysis
page — real daily closes and the current spot price, recomputed every 15 minutes. No part of it is
written in advance or stored as fixed text, which is why the numbers above are current rather than
historical. It is information, not investment advice.
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