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Implied correlation, jointly extracted from index and stock options, is a robust predictor of long-term market returns. We document that its predictive power stems from its role as a leading procyclical state variable, predicting future investment opportunities, that is, financial-market risks...
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I investigate the relation between option prices and daily stock return serial correlation. I demonstrate that the variance ratio, calculated as the ratio of realized to implied stock return variance, has both a contemporaneous and predictive relation with stock return serial correlation. The...
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This paper investigates the performance of option investments across different stocks by computing monthly returns on at-the-money straddles on individual equities. It finds that options with high historical returns continue to significantly outperform options with low historical returns over...
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In this paper, we investigate investors' expectations on economic growth and uncertainty risk implied by derivative … securities. Empirical evidence on investors' expectations implied by derivative securities has been intensively studied in the U …
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market. Results for the event study suggest a significant drop in traded volumes of commodity futures such as gold, copper …
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tend to increase crude and heating oil prices, and contractionary monetary policy shocks increase gold and platinum prices …
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Using a regime switching model, this study analyzes the nature of gold hedging benefits from the perspective of an … individual investor who may choose to invest in a portfolio of: a) Index Futures, b) T-note Futures, c) Oil Futures and d) Gold … Futures. Empirical findings support the argument that two distinctive identifiable regimes of gold futures returns exist: 1) a …
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relationship between news sentiment and returns in the gold futures market over the period 2003-2012. There is an asymmetric … response to news releases with negative news sentiment invoking a greater contemporaneous response in returns of gold futures …
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Accusations of price manipulation in the silver and gold markets have emerged in recent years. In an effort to increase … volatilities and prices within the silver and gold markets which could be an indicator of manipulation prior to the change. …
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