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Intricacies of Market and Trend Following Changes

March 10th, 2010 · 13 Comments · Strategies

In the last post we looked at the Turtle Trading system and saw that its performance went from outstanding for a long period of time to flat for 20 years. This opens a can of worms:
Does Trend Following work, is it dead, do markets change, does trend following rules need to adapt to these changes?
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Why Trend Following works: Autocorrelation?

February 24th, 2010 · 7 Comments · Data, Strategies, Trend Following

s it important to understand why Trend Following works (ie what are the sources of its profitability)?
 
I believe yes. Because markets are non-stationary (changing all the time), their characteristics – including those at the root of Trend Following profits – are changing too.
 
Understanding these market characteristics is a first step towards being able to identify [...]

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