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Daily equity returns show almost no autocorrelation, but their squares show a lot. What does that mean?
- AThe direction is unpredictable but the magnitude is not
- BThe data contain an error, since the two must agree
- CReturns follow a trend that a linear model can capture
- DThe returns are independent from one day to the next
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