
P1: OTA/XYZ P2: ABC
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CHAPTER 9
How Stock Price
Volatility Affects Returns
It is, by now, widely known that stocks do not do well when stock volatility
is high. Or perhaps stock price volatility is high when stocks are not doing
well. Either way, we find that stock price volatility—and the volatility of the
S&P 500 in particular—looms large in stock portfolio returns. The question
we want to tackle here is whether stock volatility plays a similar role in CTA
returns. That is, do CTA returns, or their correlations with stock returns,
depend on stock price volatility?
Among the ...