# Historical volatility on bloomberg API

Is there a way to obtain the historical volatility of a stock from the bloomberg API? I would be looking for the data in the HVT table. Actually 3-months historical volatility from now would be enough.

I know there are functions to get the implied volatility for options (using IVOL_LAST_RT for example) but that is not what I am looking for.

I could also just get the day opening and closing ticks from the terminal and then calculate the historical volatility, but I am trying to avoid this step.

Thanks Honza

• For example, for 90D vol, VOLATILITY_90D (you also have 10D, 30D, 120D, 260D, 360D etc) or INTERVAL_VOLATILITY with overrides for specific periods. – assylias Feb 5 '16 at 18:38
• Hi, thank you, this works indeed, you should change this from a comment to an answer. Is this documented somewhere? I have looked at the Bloomberg API developer's guide and unless I went over too quickly these values are missing. – hoonzis Feb 7 '16 at 9:51
• you can also use stuff like CL 3M 50D VOL BVOL Comdty (for CL, for example) as a ticker and then just get PX_LAST to access points on the vol surface as if they're underlying. – will Jan 7 '18 at 15:13