After grabbing headlines during recent months for generating phenomenal returns, cryptocurrency prices have dipped substantially, with the market
showing high volatility.
While micro-caps have
shown the highest volatility compared with other capitalization ranges, in the context of this upside / downside measure they possessed the most favorable return dynamics.
Not exact matches
Here we
show that traders with exogenously induced short - term elevations in cortisol adopt riskier investment strategies and that
higher overall cortisol in the market predicts
higher aggregate mispricing and
volatility.
...
volatility has finally reached a
high enough level where history
shows you can make big money from it... as
volatility settles down, you make REAL MONEY in stocks.
In this paper, Yang and his colleagues
show that selling price data increases
volatility and increases the cost of capital (which typically indicates that investments are
higher risk).
The first price chart below
shows that the levels for the Cboe Crude Oil
Volatility Index (OVX) were higher than those for the VXST and VIX indexes in January, but today the the VXST and VIX rose much higher than the OVX Index — in general, implied volatility now is higher for the S&P 500 than it is for the US
Volatility Index (OVX) were
higher than those for the VXST and VIX indexes in January, but today the the VXST and VIX rose much
higher than the OVX Index — in general, implied
volatility now is higher for the S&P 500 than it is for the US
volatility now is
higher for the S&P 500 than it is for the USO Oil ETF.
Volatility soared when the United Kingdom voted to exit the European Union (EU), with the VIX index of U.S. equity market volatility spiking to near 2016 highs, as Bloomberg d
Volatility soared when the United Kingdom voted to exit the European Union (EU), with the VIX index of U.S. equity market
volatility spiking to near 2016 highs, as Bloomberg d
volatility spiking to near 2016
highs, as Bloomberg data
shows.
What the chart above
shows is that the fund has historically demonstrated a greater likelihood of dodging the dramatic swings the equity market has experienced in times of uncommonly
high volatility.
The subcomponents
show that consumers have stronger reactions to current conditions than to expectations about the future, as indicated by the
higher volatility of the present situation index.
The analysis is in, and it
shows the general election saw the second
highest electoral
volatility — the movement of votes between parties — since 1931.
History
shows that times of
high market
volatility are good times to be in growth investments such as dividend - paying stocks.
The back - tested results of the 17 - year period ending Feb. 28, 2017,
show that the S&P U.S.
High Yield Low Volatility Corporate Bond Index may offer an intersection that bridges the volatility gap between the high - yield and investment - grade bond sectors, with increased return efficie
High Yield Low
Volatility Corporate Bond Index may offer an intersection that bridges the volatility gap between the high - yield and investment - grade bond sectors, with increased return e
Volatility Corporate Bond Index may offer an intersection that bridges the
volatility gap between the high - yield and investment - grade bond sectors, with increased return e
volatility gap between the
high - yield and investment - grade bond sectors, with increased return efficie
high - yield and investment - grade bond sectors, with increased return efficiency.
I.e., for any profitable strategy, odds are that it will
show higher returns during periods of
high volatility, so I'd be more interested in something like a Sharpe Ratio per trade when comparing subsets of trades.
The graph
shows that
high multiples almost always coincide with low economic
volatility, and bubble valuations coincide with very low
volatility.
The table
shows that
higher the duration,
higher the
volatility.
As the first graph in the text
shows and this graph confirms, it's extremely rare to see
high P / E multiples during (or even following) periods of
high economic
volatility.
Investment - grade corporate debt offers
higher yields than long - end Treasuries at less than half the
volatility, our analysis
shows.
A study Barry Feldman and Dhruv Roy, cleraly
shows the BXM Index (CBOE S&P 500 BuyWrite Index), a benchmark for an S&P 500 - based covered call strategy, had slightly
higher returns and significantly less
volatility than the S&P 500 over a time period of almost 16 years, despite the fact that covered calls have a truncated upside in the short term.
Although there's no relationship to speak of in the middle quintiles, the lowest quintile of
volatility shows the
highest average returns, and the
highest quintile of
volatility shows the lowest average returns.
Numerous studies have
shown that stocks with lower price
volatility have generated
higher (not lower) returns for investors.
Figure 1
shows how strategies that attempt to manage
volatility or risk gave a
higher Sharpe ratio, with a lower drawdown and
volatility — but, in many cases, also deliver a lower return.
Daniel and Moskowitz (2013) and Barroso and Santa - Clara (2014)
show that extreme
volatility tends to be predictive of subsequent momentum crashes and Granger et al. (2014)
show how optionality imbedded in a rebalancing strategy is a timing mechanism that can help generate a
higher return and a
higher Sharpe ratio, albeit at a cost of altering
higher moments.
An analysis of
volatility portfolio performance of common stock on the major US exchanges from 1968 to 2015
shows low
volatility stocks deliver significantly
higher excess returns.
Defensive low
volatility strategies have
shown to deliver superior returns with exposure to much lower risk over aggressive
high volatility strategies.
These PIPs use the same kind of strategy used for
high - net - worth pension funds, aiming to avoid
volatility that can leave investors with little to
show for their diligent saving.
In the Part 1 of this series we discussed the evidence that has come to light over the past 40 years that
shows us that low
volatility stocks out - perform
high volatility stocks.
This
showed the benefit of using the low
volatility screen as a quality measure to exclude those
high - yielding stocks with depressed stock prices (see Exhibit 2).
AAII Model Portfolios Record Market
Volatility Affects Model Shadow Stock Portfolio High levels of volatility caused the portfolio to show a year - to - date loss at the end
Volatility Affects Model Shadow Stock Portfolio
High levels of
volatility caused the portfolio to show a year - to - date loss at the end
volatility caused the portfolio to
show a year - to - date loss at the end of August.
High levels of
volatility caused the portfolio to
show a year - to - date loss at the end of August.
Though this is a positive, it is important to note that Stovall also found that preferred stocks experienced a
higher level of
volatility than bonds or common stock, as is
shown in the table below.
In the Journal of Index Investing, the author espouses, «Compelling empirical evidence has
shown that lower
volatility stocks... have historically outperformed their
higher -
volatility counterparts.»
The low
volatility anomaly research
shows that in contrast to established academic research stocks with lower
volatility (or beta) actually outperform
higher volatility.
Both
volatility measures ended the month at the
highs of the month and are starting to
show a little more fear going into the final week before the US election.
There are 2 Issues I see that the article makes: 1 > Negative - Sum - Game: Isn't someone who's an intra-day trader or even a
high frequency trader doing the same thing in Equity markets 2 > Leverage: The Idea of options is based on leverage, and apparently option trading has
shown to reduce
volatility.
The statistics that I have seen on the returns on commodities, over the past two decades or so, have generally
shown that they exhibit lower expected returns and
higher price
volatility than equities.
The «A + Metric Rated ETF» field, available to ETFdb Pro members,
shows the ETF in the
Volatility Hedged Equity with the
highest Metric Realtime Rating for each individual field.
The investment
shown by the discounted - flows - of - cash calculation to be the cheapest is the one that the investor should purchase — irrespective of whether the business grows or doesn't, displays
volatility or smoothness in its earnings, or carries a
high price or low in relation to its current earnings and book value.
Due to current market
volatility, current performance may be lower or
higher than the figures
shown.
«The projects we launched in December, «Tokenstars» Team» token sale and Crypto Xmas Charity Auction, have
shown that bitcoin is being used less for payments now — When compared to our ACE ICO from fall 2017, there is a sharp decline in bitcoin transactions — Bitcoin became too expensive for making regular payments and instead, bitcoin's
volatility and
high commissions turned it into an investment tool,» Tokenstars CEO, Pavel Stukolov explains to news.Bitcoin.com.
The move came amid remarks that incredibly
high price
volatility that the bitcoin has
shown recently hampers transactions, makes them too slow and for a big commission fee.
Volatility remained muted, correlations are also low despite a few spikes
higher, and the early leaders of the rally are still
showing strength.
«The three - month average for single - family production has reached a post-recession
high, but the months ahead may
show volatility, given that the building markets affected by Hurricanes Harvey and Irma represent about 14 percent of national production.»
The subcomponents
show that consumers have stronger reactions to current conditions than to expectations about the future, as indicated by the
higher volatility of the present situation index.