Risk Neutral Skewness Predicts Price Rebounds and So Can Improve Momentum Performance

Paul Borochin and Yanhui Zhao

Critical Finance Review, 2022, vol. 11, issue 2, 383-429

Abstract: Positive option-implied risk-neutral skewness (RNS) predicts next-month abnormal underlying stock returns driven by upward rebounds of previously undervalued stocks. The RNS anomaly is strongest in periods of post-recession rebounds when momentum crashes occur. Furthermore, the momentum anomaly is strongest (weakest) in stocks with the most negative (positive) RNS. We generalize our findings to non-optionable stocks by constructing an RNS factor-mimicking portfolio, finding that a momentum strategy that avoids performance reversals has meaningfully superior performance. Our results hold after controlling for trading frictions, firm characteristics, and common risk factors.

Keywords: Risk neutral skewness; Momentum; Return predictability (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: G12 G13 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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