complexities, e.g., fragmentation due to multiple venues, dynamics of limit order books, lit vs. dark liquidity, different trading …

and volatility regimes. Using cointegrated price data, it is shown that increasing the number of assets in a portfolio … supports the proftability of the HFRA in an up-trend and reduces the potential loss of the HFRA in a down-trend in a high-volatility … environment. For low-volatility regimes, although increasing portfolio size marginally enhances the HFRA's proftability, the …