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<p>For a financial instrument whose price follows a <a href="page.php?w=Gaussian">Gaussian</a> <a href="page.php?w=random_walk">random walk</a>, or <a href="page.php?w=Wiener_process">Wiener process</a>, the width of the distribution increases as time increases.  This is because there is an increasing <a href="page.php?w=probability">probability</a> that the instrument's price will be farther away from the initial price as time increases. However, rather than increase linearly, the volatility increases with the</p><p>
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