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Fat-Tailed Distribution
 
 
The Shape of a Fat-Tailed Distribution A reference to the tendency of many financial instrument price and return distributions to have more observations in the tails and to be thinner in the mid- range than a normal distribution. Assets that are prone to price jumps tend to exhibit fat-tailed distributions. See also Leptokurtosis, Lognormal Distribution (diagram), Normal Distribution.   
 
 
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