Barinov, Alexander; Wu, Juan - In: Journal of Financial Markets 21 (2014) C, pp. 98-122
future returns. We argue that these firms have negative alphas because they are a hedge against expected aggregate volatility …, and the aggregate volatility risk factor can largely explain the high RSI effect. The key mechanism is that high RSI firms … more valuable as idiosyncratic volatility goes up. Idiosyncratic volatility usually increases with aggregate volatility (i …