In the past 20 years, momentum or trend following strategies have become an established part of the investor toolbox. We introduce a new way of analyzing momentum strategies by looking at the information ratio (IR, average return divided by standard deviation). We calculate the theoretical IR of...

This article proposes an artificial data generating algorithm that is simple and easy to customize.The fundamental concept is to perform random permutation of Monte Carlo generated randomnumbers which conform to the unconditional probability distribution of the original real time series.Similar...

We present a detailed study of the performance of a trading rule that uses moving average of past returns to predict future returns on stock indexes. Our main goal is to link performance and the stochastic process of the traded asset. Our study reports short, medium and long term effects by...