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Mammoth Hedge Fund moves into Trend Following

January 28th, 2010 · 4 Comments · Futures, Trend Following

AQR is a top hedge fund, managing around $24B in Assets. Lately, they have been making noise about their moving into the Managed Futures space (a.k.a. Trend Following). They seem to be working at institutional investor’s acceptance of trend following as an “investment” concept. They might just be trying to catch up with another mammoth [...]

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Price Distributions and Trend Following

December 8th, 2009 · 7 Comments · Data, Forex, Trend Following

I posited in an earlier post that fat tails are one of the main reasons why trend following works. The underlying concept can be summarized as follows: trend following attempts to capture big price moves (a.k.a. trends). Since price distributions are leptokurtic (i.e. they exhibit fat-tails) long trends occur at abnormal frequency, providing greater sources [...]

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