Unlocking Stock Market Success: Embrace Risk for Higher Returns!
The article shows that stocks with high idiosyncratic risk can lead to higher returns, especially for overpriced stocks. By focusing on anomalies in the stock market and considering idiosyncratic volatility, a new strategy was developed that outperformed traditional methods. This strategy produced monthly abnormal returns between 0.97% to 1.14%, beating a basic benchmark by a significant margin. The results were consistent across different time periods and models, indicating the potential for using idiosyncratic risk as a predictor for stock returns.