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Hedging Extreme Co-Movements

Statistical Mechanics 2008-12-02 v1 Trading and Market Microstructure

Abstract

Based on a recent theorem due to the authors, it is shown how the extreme tail dependence between an asset and a factor or index or between two assets can be easily calibrated. Portfolios constructed with stocks with minimal tail dependence with the market exhibit a remarkable degree of decorrelation with the market at no cost in terms of performance measured by the Sharpe ratio.

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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0205636,
  title  = {Hedging Extreme Co-Movements},
  author = {Y. Malevergne and D. Sornette},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0205636},
  year   = {2008}
}

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11 pages including 3 figures