«Identifying VXX / XIV Tendencies» finds that S&P 500 implied volatility index (VIX)
futures roll return, as measured by the percentage difference in settlement price between the nearest and next nearest VIX futures, may be a useful predictor of iPath S&P 500 VIX Short - term Futures ETN (VXX) and VelocityShares Daily Inverse VIX Short - term ETN (XIV) returns.
Not exact matches
The plan was to
roll out ThirdLove's product line in the spring of 2014 with seven distinct styles, and then use the data collected — including sales,
returns, and feedback — to fine - tune the bras» designs and
future orders.
They calculate
returns for precious metals based on a continually
rolling position in nearest month
futures.
The steeper the contango, the worse the relative
return on the
rolling futures contracts compared to the spot price of the commodity.
Tenants were recently notified that their apartments have been
returned to the rent regulation
rolls, detailing the lowered rent amounts and
future rent protections tenants will soon enjoy.
Rolling this out on a much larger scale, as is being considered with the
return to grammar schools, means that we have young people who have had decisions made on their
future attainment before they even have a chance to attain.
For example, while managed
futures as an asset class have generally underperformed stock and bond markets in their current bull market, if one compares the
rolling 12 month
returns of various asset classes (bonds, hedge funds and managed
futures) against the S&P 500 from 1994 to 2014, managed
futures as an asset class rose when the S&P 500 declined.
The DBIQ Optimum Yield Diversified Commodity Index Excess
Return employs a rule based approach when it
rolls from one
futures contract to another for each commodity in the index.
The following chart shows
rolling return correlation of the AQR Managed
Futures Strategy Fund (AQMIX) with the Vanguard Total Stock Market ETF (VTI) and the Vanguard Total Bond Market ETF (BND):
Is the VIX
futures roll yield (
roll return) exploitable via exchange - traded products (ETPs) designed to track direct, levered or inverse VIX
futures indexes?
Secondly, and this is the big issue, depending on how the underlying ETF
rolls its
futures contract, backwardation or contango can hurt
returns over the long term.
Roll yield, a source of profits for trend followers, is the
return captured when a
futures contract converges to the spot price.
These riskier
returns may be an issue if you may need to access your investments in the nearer
future, or if you simply won't be able to stomach the
roller - coaster ride of the stock market.
Since DGAZ tracks an excess
return version of the S&P GSCI Natural Gas Index,
returns will reflect the changes in the price of natural gas and
returns from
rolling futures contracts, but not any income from collateral.
With their retirement savings already badly depleted by the rocky, erratic performance of stocks on Wall Street, these
returning students opted to go into debt, essentially
rolling the dice for a better
future.
The «excess
return» name describes the version of the indices that measures the change in the spot price of the
futures contract plus the
return from
rolling the expiring
futures contract into a new one.
When high - yield bonds were down, the correlation between their monthly
return and the monthly
roll cost of VIX
futures was 75 %, indicating that the VIX
futures curve was more likely to be in backwardation.
When emerging market bonds were down, the correlation between their monthly
return and the monthly
roll cost of VIX
futures was 56 %, also an indicator of backwardation in the VIX
futures curve.
Research Affiliates explains in plain language the dynamics of
roll returns when the commodity
futures curve slopes upward (contango) and downward (backwardation).
Horizons HXX seeks to replicate, to the extent possible, the performance of the EURO STOXX 50 ®
Futures Roll Index (Total
Return), net of expenses.
The Horizons EAFE
Futures Roll Index (Total
Return) is designed to measure the performance of large - and mid-cap securities across 21 developed markets including Europe, Australasia and the Far East, excluding the U.S. and Canada.
Horizons HXDM seeks to replicate, to the extent possible, the performance of the Horizons EAFE
Futures Roll Index (Total
Return), net of expenses.
You could manually trigger the conversion in beta but Apple now recommends you
roll back to HFS + until APFS support
returns in a
future update.