Not exact matches
There are no liquidity concerns, as you are not purchasing any
underlying assets and platforms / brokers can create any number
of different options which provides plenty
of variance for traders to choose from.
The strategy allocates risk and leverage based on
variance assuming stable correlations... The risk parity strategy, decomposed, is actually a portfolio
of leveraged short correlation trades (alpha) layered on top
of linear price exposure to the
underlying assets (beta).
Secondly, the VIX is designed as a theoretical price, not an
asset - this is advantageous in that it is quoted in units
of the
underlying asset, but volatility is much more expensive and difficult to hedge than
variance.