Understanding how price-volume information determines future price movement is important for market makers who frequently place orders on both buy and sell sides, and for traders to split meta-orders to reduce price impact. Given the complex non-linear nature of the problem, we consider the...

We show that a volatility-managed strategy using equity options provides higher alphas, increases Sharpe ratios, and generates significant utility gains for investors, exceeding those of the statistical volatility-managed counterparts. Return and volatility expectations embedded in options...