“…Although the performance of many different statistically based historical risk models for the oil market has been deeply analyzed (e.g., Aloui & Mabrouk, 2010;Cabedo & Moya, 2003;Costello, Asem, & Gardner, 2008;Fan, Wei, & Xu, 2004;Fan, Zhang, Tsai, & Wei, 2008;Feng, Wu, & Jiang, 2004;Giot & Laurent, 2003;González-Pedraz, Moreno, & Peña, 2014;Lux, Segnon, & Gupta, 2016;Sadorsky, 2006;Youssef, Belkacem, & Mokni, 2015;and 1 It is well known that a time window that is too long makes today's value almost unconditional, and hence of almost no value, whereas one that is too short leads to statistically poor results and might leave out important past data. 2 It is worth noting that the square root extension is theoretically acceptable only in the presence of normal results.…”