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vol of vol signal

cadence: Dailydata: mediumlong onlylong short

What it checks

When vol-of-vol is high, momentum strategies decay — use it to step aside.

Mechanism

21-day realized vol of VIX; when high → defensive bias on momentum families.

No production champion data for this family yet. Stats appear once the discovery pipeline promotes at least one strategy with this family tag.

Data dependencies

  • fred_macro

    Worker data table — see services/worker schema.

  • daily_prices

    Adjusted-close OHLCV for every US-listed ticker; primary price feed.

Expected edge

Paper alpha
improves base-family Sharpe ~10-20%

VVIX-style gating improves Sharpe of base families by ~10-20%.

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