Cocoa Commodity Volatility

CCUSD Commodity   8,963  328.00  3.80%   
Cocoa appears to be very steady, given 3 months investment horizon. Cocoa secures Sharpe Ratio (or Efficiency) of 0.0701, which signifies that the commodity had a 0.0701% return per unit of standard deviation over the last 3 months. We have found thirty technical indicators for Cocoa, which you can use to evaluate the volatility of the entity. Please makes use of Cocoa's mean deviation of 2.49, and Risk Adjusted Performance of 0.073 to double-check if our risk estimates are consistent with your expectations.
  
Cocoa Commodity volatility depicts how high the prices fluctuate around the mean (or its average) price. In other words, it is a statistical measure of the distribution of Cocoa daily returns, and it is calculated using variance and standard deviation. We also use Cocoa's beta, its sensitivity to the market, as well as its odds of financial distress to provide a more practical estimation of Cocoa volatility.
Downward market volatility can be a perfect environment for commodity traders who play the long game. For example, an investor can purchase Cocoa that has halved in price over a short period. This will lower the average cost, improving your portfolio's performance when the markets normalize. Similarly, when the prices of cocoa's commodities rise, investors can sell out and invest the proceeds in other commodities with better opportunities.

Cocoa Market Sensitivity And Downside Risk

Cocoa's beta coefficient measures the volatility of Cocoa commodity compared to the systematic risk of the entire market represented by your selected benchmark. In mathematical terms, beta represents the slope of the line through a regression of data points where each of these points represents Cocoa commodity's returns against your selected market. In other words, Cocoa's beta of 0.14 provides an investor with an approximation of how much risk Cocoa commodity can potentially add to one of your existing portfolios. Cocoa shows above-average downside volatility for the selected time horizon. Understanding different market volatility trends often help investors to time the market. Properly using volatility indicators enable traders to measure Cocoa's commodity risk against market volatility during both bullish and bearish trends. The higher level of volatility that comes with bear markets can directly impact Cocoa's commodity price while adding stress to investors as they watch their shares' value plummet. This usually forces investors to rebalance their portfolios by buying different financial instruments as prices fall.
3 Months Beta |Analyze Cocoa Demand Trend
Check current 90 days Cocoa correlation with market (Dow Jones Industrial)

Cocoa Beta

    
  0.14  
Cocoa standard deviation measures the daily dispersion of prices over your selected time horizon relative to its mean. A typical volatile entity has a high standard deviation, while the deviation of a stable instrument is usually low. As a downside, the standard deviation calculates all uncertainty as risk, even when it is in your favor, such as above-average returns.

Standard Deviation

    
  3.18  
It is essential to understand the difference between upside risk (as represented by Cocoa's standard deviation) and the downside risk, which can be measured by semi-deviation or downside deviation of Cocoa's daily returns or price. Since the actual investment returns on holding a position in cocoa commodity tend to have a non-normal distribution, there will be different probabilities for losses than for gains. The likelihood of losses is reflected in the downside risk of an investment in Cocoa.

Cocoa Commodity Volatility Analysis

Volatility refers to the frequency at which Cocoa commodity price increases or decreases within a specified period. These fluctuations usually indicate the level of risk that's associated with Cocoa's price changes. Investors will then calculate the volatility of Cocoa's commodity to predict their future moves. A commodity that has erratic price changes quickly hits new highs, and lows are considered highly volatile. A commodity with relatively stable price changes has low volatility. A highly volatile commodity is riskier, but the risk cuts both ways. Investing in highly volatile security can either be highly successful, or you may experience significant failure. There are two main types of Cocoa's volatility:

Historical Volatility

This type of commodity volatility measures Cocoa's fluctuations based on previous trends. It's commonly used to predict Cocoa's future behavior based on its past. However, it cannot conclusively determine the future direction of the commodity.

Implied Volatility

This type of volatility provides a positive outlook on future price fluctuations for Cocoa's current market price. This means that the commodity will return to its initially predicted market price. This type of volatility can be derived from derivative instruments written on Cocoa's to be redeemed at a future date.
Transformation
The output start index for this execution was zero with a total number of output elements of sixty-one. Cocoa Average Price is the average of the sum of open, high, low and close daily prices of a bar. It can be used to smooth an indicator that normally takes just the closing price as input.

Cocoa Projected Return Density Against Market

Assuming the 90 days horizon Cocoa has a beta of 0.1371 suggesting as returns on the market go up, Cocoa average returns are expected to increase less than the benchmark. However, during the bear market, the loss on holding Cocoa will be expected to be much smaller as well.
Most traded commodities, like Cocoa, are exposed to two types of risk: systematic (i.e., market-wide) and unsystematic (i.e., specific to the commodities market). Unsystematic risk pertains to events directly impacting Cocoa prices. This risk can be mitigated by diversifying investments across various commodities from different sectors that have low correlation with each other. Conversely, systematic risk involves price fluctuations due to broader commodity market trends and cannot be eliminated through diversification. Regardless of the number of commodities in your portfolio, market-wide risks persist. However, you can assess Cocoa's historical responsiveness to market shifts to gauge your comfort with its price volatility. Beta and standard deviation are key metrics to guide this analysis.
Cocoa has an alpha of 0.2436, implying that it can generate a 0.24 percent excess return over Dow Jones Industrial after adjusting for the inherited market risk (beta).
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Cocoa's volatility is measured either by using standard deviation or beta. Standard deviation will reflect the average amount of how cocoa commodity's price will differ from the mean after some time.To get its calculation, you should first determine the mean price during the specified period then subtract that from each price point.

What Drives a Cocoa Price Volatility?

Several factors can influence a commodity's market volatility:

Industry

Specific events can influence volatility within a particular industry. For instance, a significant weather upheaval in a crucial oil-production site may cause oil prices to increase in the oil sector. The direct result will be the rise in the price of oil distribution companies. Similarly, any government regulation in a specific industry could negatively influence prices due to increased presure on compliance that may impact the commodity's future earnings and growth.

Political and Economic environment

When governments make significant decisions regarding trade agreements, policies, and legislation regarding specific industries, they will influence commodity prices. Everything from speeches to elections may influence investors, who can directly influence the prices in any particular industry.

The Commodity's Performance

Sometimes volatility will only affect an individual commodity. For example, a revolutionary product launch or strong earnings report may attract many investors to purchase the commodity. This positive attention will raise the commodity's price.

Cocoa Commodity Risk Measures

Assuming the 90 days horizon the coefficient of variation of Cocoa is 1425.9. The daily returns are distributed with a variance of 10.12 and standard deviation of 3.18. The mean deviation of Cocoa is currently at 2.48. For similar time horizon, the selected benchmark (Dow Jones Industrial) has volatility of 0.77
α
Alpha over Dow Jones
0.24
β
Beta against Dow Jones0.14
σ
Overall volatility
3.18
Ir
Information ratio 0.04

Cocoa Commodity Return Volatility

Cocoa historical daily return volatility represents how much of Cocoa commodity's daily returns swing around its mean - it is a statistical measure of its dispersion of returns. Cocoa shows 3.1806% volatility of returns over 90 . By contrast, Dow Jones Industrial accepts 0.7626% volatility on return distribution over the 90 days horizon.
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Cocoa Investment Opportunity

Cocoa has a volatility of 3.18 and is 4.18 times more volatile than Dow Jones Industrial. Compared to the overall equity markets, volatility of historical daily returns of Cocoa is lower than 28 percent of all global equities and portfolios over the last 90 days. You can use Cocoa to enhance the returns of your portfolios. The commodity experiences an unexpected upward trend. Watch out for market signals. Check odds of Cocoa to be traded at 10755.6 in 90 days.

Significant diversification

The correlation between Cocoa and DJI is 0.03 (i.e., Significant diversification) for selected investment horizon. Overlapping area represents the amount of risk that can be diversified away by holding Cocoa and DJI in the same portfolio, assuming nothing else is changed.

Cocoa Additional Risk Indicators

The analysis of Cocoa's secondary risk indicators is one of the essential steps in making a buy or sell decision. The process involves identifying the amount of risk involved in Cocoa's investment and either accepting that risk or mitigating it. Along with some common measures of Cocoa commodity's risk such as standard deviation, beta, or value at risk, we also provide a set of secondary indicators that can assist in the individual investment decision or help in hedging the risk of your existing portfolios.
Please note, the risk measures we provide can be used independently or collectively to perform a risk assessment. When comparing two potential commoditys, we recommend comparing similar commoditys with homogenous growth potential and valuation from related markets to determine which investment holds the most risk.

Cocoa Suggested Diversification Pairs

Pair trading is one of the very effective strategies used by professional day traders and hedge funds capitalizing on short-time and mid-term market inefficiencies. The approach is based on the fact that the ratio of prices of two correlating shares is long-term stable and oscillates around the average value. If the correlation ratio comes outside the common area, you can speculate with a high success rate that the ratio will return to the mean value and collect a profit.
The effect of pair diversification on risk is to reduce it, but we should note this doesn't apply to all risk types. When we trade pairs against Cocoa as a counterpart, there is always some inherent risk that will never be diversified away no matter what. This volatility limits the effect of tactical diversification using pair trading. Cocoa's systematic risk is the inherent uncertainty of the entire market, and therefore cannot be mitigated even by pair-trading it against the equity that is not highly correlated to it. On the other hand, Cocoa's unsystematic risk describes the types of risk that we can protect against, at least to some degree, by selecting a matching pair that is not perfectly correlated to Cocoa.