Artikel
VIX futures as a market timing indicator
Our work relates to the literature supporting that the VIX also mirrors investor sentiment and, thus, contains useful information regarding future S&P500 returns. The objective of this empirical analysis is to verify if the shape of the volatility futures term structure has signaling effects regarding future equity price movements, as several investors believe. Our findings generally support the hypothesis that the VIX term structure can be employed as a contrarian market timing indicator. The empirical analysis of this study has important practical implications for financial market practitioners, as it shows that they can use the VIX futures term structure not only as a proxy of market expectations on forward volatility, but also as a stock market timing tool.
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Englisch
- Bibliographic citation
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Journal: Journal of Risk and Financial Management ; ISSN: 1911-8074 ; Volume: 12 ; Year: 2019 ; Issue: 3 ; Pages: 1-9 ; Basel: MDPI
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Wirtschaft
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VIX futures
volatility term structure
future equity returns
S&P500
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Geistige Schöpfung
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Fassas, Athanasios P.
Hourvouliades, Nikolas
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Veröffentlichung
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MDPI
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Basel
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2019
- DOI
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doi:10.3390/jrfm12030113
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- Last update
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10.03.2025, 11:44 AM CET
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- Artikel
Associated
- Fassas, Athanasios P.
- Hourvouliades, Nikolas
- MDPI
Time of origin
- 2019
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