Research Readings Price and volatility
Trailing one-hour realized volatility
Also shown as Realized vol (1h)
Measures how dispersed the recorded minute-to-minute log returns were over the trailing hour. It describes past return variability, without a direction.
- Live monitoring
- Binance Futures only; depends on the full setup
- Observed
- measured over the trailing hour
- Unit
- Standard deviation of returns
- Valid range
- 0 to 1
How to read it, with examples
How to read it
The value is the population standard deviation of returns between consecutive non-empty minute cells inside the hour. A value of 0.001 means a 0.1% log-return standard deviation, not a 0.1% return over the hour. Higher values mean more dispersion. It is not annualized or multiplied by the square root of time. The full observation window and at least 30 returns are required; otherwise it is absent. Returns spanning empty minutes cover the gap rather than inserting zero returns.
Compare setups observed during more and less variable price paths. Read the hour's return and range separately to retain direction and excursion size.
What it does not prove
Low dispersion does not mean no trend: similarly sized returns can accumulate into a move. It does not describe every intraminute excursion, execution risk or the next hour's volatility.
Technical details
Registry definition
Realized return volatility over the trailing hour.
Field ID
feature.realized_vol_1h
Valid query operators
at least, at most, between
Window operators: lowest, highest, average, latest or change in, over a trailing window.
Editable query preset
Derived from the valid range. Review and edit before running.
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}The search reports how often the record held this condition and what followed. It does not decide whether an idea works.