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Volatility Harvesting: Extracting Return from Randomness

Trading and Market Microstructure 2015-11-10 v3 Portfolio Management

Abstract

Studying Binomial and Gaussian return dynamics in discrete time, we show how excess volatility can be traded to create growth. We test our results on real world data to confirm the observed model phenomena while also highlighting implicit risks.

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@article{arxiv.1508.05241,
  title  = {Volatility Harvesting: Extracting Return from Randomness},
  author = {Jan Hendrik Witte},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1508.05241},
  year   = {2015}
}

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10 Pages, 6 Figures

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