What is value at risk (VaR)? FRM T1-02

Value at risk is just a statistical feature of the probability distribution (the hard part is specifying the probability distribution): VaR is the quantile associated with a selected probability; i.e., what's the worst that can happen with some level of confidence? (Here is my XLS trtl.bz/1008-wh...)
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