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...