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A quantitative researcher is calculating the historical volatility of a stock. Over a 10-day period, the sample standard deviation of daily log-returns is 1.5%.

Assuming 252 trading days in a year, what is the annualized historical volatility?

  1. 378.00%
  2. 1.50%
  3. 23.81%
  4. 15.00%

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