Table 7 also reports summary statistics on the performance of the trading strategies, including the annualized return, the annualized volatility, and the skewness (Columns 4–6). The average return is low and the volatility is high for the strategies based on the VIX, VRP, and TRP because they are implemented over the recent period in which the subprime crisis contributes the most. All strategies are associated with negative skewness, which reflects the fact that the average weight of the market portfolio is relatively close to one (between 0.92 and 1.45).