Creating a trading strategy that adjusts for trading instrument volatility

An intuitive way to think about price volatility is investor confidence in the specific instrument, that is, how willing the investors are to invest money into the specific instrument and how long they are willing to hold on to a position in that instrument. As price volatility goes up, because prices make bigger swings at faster paces, investor confidence drops. Conversely, as price volatility goes down, investors are more willing to have bigger positions and hold those positions for longer periods of time. Volatility in a few asset classes often spills over into other asset classes, thus slowly spreading volatility over to all economic fields, housing costs, consumer costs, and so on. Obviously, sophisticated strategies need to dynamically adjust to changing volatility in trading instruments by following...