If you build a net - net portfolio that matches the market over a 5, 10, 15, or 20 year back test — it's going to do it with
a lot less volatility than the market.
After all, as the graph above demonstrates, investors in Treasury Bills beat the S&P 500 during the 2000s, and with a heck of
a lot less volatility.
In fact, a more balanced portfolio with 70 % equities and 30 % fixed income holdings may enable them to meet their long - term goals and also provide
a lot less volatility along the way.
However, BXM achieved returns comparable to the S&P 500 with
a lot less volatility: standard deviation was just 10.99 % for BXM compared to 16.5 % for the S&P 500.
(And with a whole
lot less volatility.)
«Stated differently, there are many academics who would say that buying individual stocks leads to people taking «uncompensated risks», meaning they could likely get a similar return with
a lot less volatility if they just diversified more — both within and throughout asset classes.»
If you build a net - net portfolio that matches the market over a 5, 10, 15, or 20 year back test — it's going to do it with
a lot less volatility than the market.
Not exact matches
I find that low
volatility environments like we have now make this type of entry hard to trade because fills become a
lot less frequent.
Yes, Lo cites a
lot of his own findings, including 2009 seminal findings on how stop - loss selling would have produced since 1929 almost 1 % of outperformance annually — and with
less volatility over a straight buy and hold strategy — sure to interest investing nerds.
The premium is up $ 0.45 since then, which I see as a decent change in
less than an hour and a half, but irrelevant for my trade overall since the option has two months to go before expiration and will face a
lot more
volatility before I'm out of it.
With major currencies suffering 40 - 50 % blows, a
lot of investors turned to Bitcoin for its
lesser volatility.