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USING IMPLIED VOLATILITY TO PREDICT ETF RETURNS (1/30/16)

To see the origin of this series click here In the paper that inspired this series ("What Does Individual Option Volatility Smirk Tell Us About Future Equity Returns") the authors' research shows that their calculation of the Option Volatility Smirk is predictive of equity returns up to 4 weeks. Therefore, each week, I will calculate the Long/Short legs of a portfolio constructed by following their criteria as closely as possible. However this study will focus on ETF's as opposed to single name

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COMPOSITE MACRO ETF WEEKLY IMPLIED COST-OF-CAPITAL ESTIMATES VS. CUMULATIVE RETURNS (1/30/16)

WHAT IS THE "IMPLIED COST OF CAPITAL (ICC)" MODEL? “In accounting and finance the implied cost of equity capital (ICC)—defined as the internal rate of return that equates the current stock price to discounted expected future dividends—is an increasingly popular class of proxies for the expected rate of equity returns. ” — CHARLES C. Y. WANG; an assistant professor of business administration in the Accounting and Management Unit at Harvard Business School The basic concept of the ICC model is

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COMPOSITE MACRO ETF WEEKLY ANALYTICS (1/30/2016)

LAYOUT (Organized by Time Period): Composite ETF Cumulative Returns Momentum Bar plot Composite ETF Cumulative Returns Line plot Composite ETF Risk-Adjusted Returns Scatter plot (Std vs Mean) Composite ETF Risk-Adjusted Return Correlations Heatmap (Clusterplot) Composite ETF Cumulative Return Tables Notable Trends and Observations COMPOSITE ETF COMPONENTS: LAST 252 TRADING DAYS Click here for help understanding this chart Click here for help understanding this chart Click here

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USING IMPLIED VOLATILITY TO PREDICT ETF RETURNS (1/23/16)

To see the origin of this series click here In the paper that inspired this series ("What Does Individual Option Volatility Smirk Tell Us About Future Equity Returns") the authors' research shows that their calculation of the Option Volatility Smirk is predictive of equity returns up to 4 weeks. Therefore, each week, I will calculate the Long/Short legs of a portfolio constructed by following their criteria as closely as possible. However this study will focus on ETF's as opposed to single name

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COMPOSITE MACRO ETF WEEKLY IMPLIED COST-OF-CAPITAL ESTIMATES VS. CUMULATIVE RETURNS (1/23/16)

WHAT IS THE "IMPLIED COST OF CAPITAL (ICC)" MODEL? “In accounting and finance the implied cost of equity capital (ICC)—defined as the internal rate of return that equates the current stock price to discounted expected future dividends—is an increasingly popular class of proxies for the expected rate of equity returns. ” — CHARLES C. Y. WANG; an assistant professor of business administration in the Accounting and Management Unit at Harvard Business School The basic concept of the ICC model is

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COMPOSITE MACRO ETF WEEKLY ANALYTICS (1/23/2016)

LAYOUT (Organized by Time Period): Composite ETF Cumulative Returns Momentum Bar plot Composite ETF Cumulative Returns Line plot Composite ETF Risk-Adjusted Returns Scatter plot (Std vs Mean) Composite ETF Risk-Adjusted Return Correlations Heatmap (Clusterplot) Composite ETF Cumulative Return Tables Notable Trends and Observations COMPOSITE ETF COMPONENTS: LAST 252 TRADING DAYS Click here for help understanding this chart Click here for help understanding this chart Click here

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USING IMPLIED VOLATILITY TO PREDICT ETF RETURNS (1/17/16)

To see the origin of this series click here In the paper that inspired this series ("What Does Individual Option Volatility Smirk Tell Us About Future Equity Returns") the authors' research shows that their calculation of the Option Volatility Smirk is predictive of equity returns up to 4 weeks. Therefore, each week, I will calculate the Long/Short legs of a portfolio constructed by following their criteria as closely as possible. However this study will focus on ETF's as opposed to single name

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COMPOSITE MACRO ETF WEEKLY IMPLIED COST-OF-CAPITAL ESTIMATES VS. CUMULATIVE RETURNS (1/16/16)

WHAT IS THE "IMPLIED COST OF CAPITAL (ICC)" MODEL? “In accounting and finance the implied cost of equity capital (ICC)—defined as the internal rate of return that equates the current stock price to discounted expected future dividends—is an increasingly popular class of proxies for the expected rate of equity returns. ” — CHARLES C. Y. WANG; an assistant professor of business administration in the Accounting and Management Unit at Harvard Business School The basic concept of the ICC model is

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COMPOSITE MACRO ETF WEEKLY ANALYTICS (1/16/2016)

LAYOUT (Organized by Time Period): Composite ETF Cumulative Returns Momentum Bar plot Composite ETF Cumulative Returns Line plot Composite ETF Risk-Adjusted Returns Scatter plot (Std vs Mean) Composite ETF Risk-Adjusted Return Correlations Heatmap (Clusterplot) Composite ETF Cumulative Return Tables Notable Trends and Observations COMPOSITE ETF COMPONENTS: LAST 252 TRADING DAYS Click here for help understanding this chart Click here for help understanding this chart Click here

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USING IMPLIED VOLATILITY TO PREDICT EQUITY/ETF RETURNS (1/11/16)

To see the origin of this series click here In the paper that inspired this series ("What Does Individual Option Volatility Smirk Tell Us About Future Equity Returns") the authors research shows that Option Volatility Smirk they calculate is predictive up to 4 weeks. Therefore, each week, I will calculate the Long/Short legs of a portfolio constructed by following their criteria as closely as possible. I will then track the results of the Long/Short portfolio, in equity returns, cumulatively fo

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COMPOSITE MACRO ETF WEEKLY IMPLIED COST-OF-CAPITAL ESTIMATES VS. CUMULATIVE RETURNS (1/09/16)

WHAT IS THE "IMPLIED COST OF CAPITAL (ICC)" MODEL? “In accounting and finance the implied cost of equity capital (ICC)—defined as the internal rate of return that equates the current stock price to discounted expected future dividends—is an increasingly popular class of proxies for the expected rate of equity returns. ” — CHARLES C. Y. WANG; an assistant professor of business administration in the Accounting and Management Unit at Harvard Business School The basic concept of the ICC model is

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COMPOSITE MACRO ETF WEEKLY ANALYTICS (1/09/2016)

LAYOUT (Organized by Time Period): Composite ETF Cumulative Returns Momentum Bar plot Composite ETF Cumulative Returns Line plot Composite ETF Risk-Adjusted Returns Scatter plot (Std vs Mean) Composite ETF Risk-Adjusted Return Correlations Heatmap (Clusterplot) Composite ETF Cumulative Return Tables Notable Trends and Observations COMPOSITE ETF COMPONENTS: LAST 252 TRADING DAYS Click here for help understanding this chart Click here for help understanding this chart Click here

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