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Entries Tagged as 'kurtosis'

Intricacies of Market and Trend Following Changes

March 10th, 2010 · 14 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 […]

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Tags: autocorrelation·distribution·kurtosis·michael covel·niederhoffer·Turtle·walk-forward

Why Trend Following works: Autocorrelation?

February 24th, 2010 · 13 Comments · Data, Strategies, Trend Following

Is 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 […]

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Tags: autocorrelation·distribution·kurtosis·options·Stats

Price Distributions and Trend Following

December 8th, 2009 · 8 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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Tags: distribution·kurtosis·research paper

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