Or a case for going short VIX despite high bullish consensus? I have been going on about roll yield and term structure for a few posts, and through two very concrete examples we’ll see how it can affect your trading and system development A reader recently mentioned a paper (pdf by Sloyer and Tolkin) presenting […]
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VIX, Peso… Sometimes you just cannot trade it!
August 9th, 2010 · 5 Comments · Futures
Tags: peso·roll yield·VIX
Better Trend Following via improved Roll Yield
July 26th, 2010 · 31 Comments · Futures, Strategies, Trend Following
To round off a series on backwardation, contango and roll yield (posts 1, 2 and 3), let’s put all this info together and use it in an innovative trading strategy to show how it can improve the performance of a Trend Following system by optimising its roll yield component (note: this could also be applied […]
Tags: DB·roll yield
Roll Yield and Commodity Yield Curve
July 19th, 2010 · 3 Comments · Data, Futures
We have seen previously that backwardation and/or contango can induce a fairly large drift between the performance of an instrument’s spot market and its corresponding futures market. This phenomenon can be described as roll yield of futures trading and I suggested it was one of the four components in Trend Following returns. As per that […]
Tags: roll yield·yield curve