Chapter 19: Risk Management

Volatility Forecasting Mechanics for Risk Control intermediate

Volatility is the one financial quantity that is genuinely forecastable at short horizons, and every risk overlay — from position sizing to drawdown limits — depends on getting that forecast roughly right.

Volatility is the one financial quantity that is genuinely forecastable at short horizons, and every risk overlay — from position sizing to drawdown limits — depends on getting that forecast roughly right.

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Understanding Risk Parity
Brian Hurst (2010)
Toward Regime-Aware Risk Forecasts
Kevin Khang (2022) — The Journal of Portfolio Management
Time-Series Techniques: Estimating Volatility
Stephen Marra (2023) — The Journal of Portfolio Management
Generalized autoregressive conditional heteroskedasticity
Tim Bollerslev (1986) — Journal of Econometrics