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Gross margin peak for INTC spells trouble for Semis $SMH [Nautilus Research]
Gross margin peak for INTC spells trouble for Semis $SMH
- 4 years ago, 16 Jan 2015, 03:04pm -
Trend Following Wizards close 2014 on a High [Au Tra Sy]
Collectively, the Wizards added another good month to an already very good 2014 (the come-back year for trend following). A near-100% of positive results for the year, with an average just shy of +25% and a handful of strong performers.
- 4 years ago, 16 Jan 2015, 10:42am -
End of Month Strategy in S&P 500 – Update [Quantified Strategies]
In July 2012 I published a strategy about an end of month strategy in S&P 500. Here are the criterias: Entry: Day 29, 30 or 31 of the month must be negative. Then enter on close. Exit: Two successive positive closes in a row, OR SPY hits a 1% target. (no stops). Here are the results from 2005
- 4 years ago, 16 Jan 2015, 04:57am -
A Computational perspective on Real GDP Growth (Part 1) [Stuart Reid]
Before I get into the meat of this article, I wanted to share some of my thoughts regarding this blog. Over the past few months the site has undergone many changes in the front and back end. The site has a more professional theme, mail subscriptions have been moved to a third party with more
- 4 years ago, 15 Jan 2015, 04:37pm -
Quantitative Value @ $19.99 is Back On!!! [Alpha Architect]
Hi everyone! I am happy to announce that our book shipment has arrived and Quantitative Value is back on the market at $19.99! We ordered 760 copies, but our daily sales have really accelerated as of late, so don't wait to grab a copy. David wasn't smiling this much when we were hand
- 4 years ago, 15 Jan 2015, 04:36pm -
QuantStrat TradeR’s VXV:VXMT Strategy [Volatility Made Simple]
This is a test of a strategy from Ilya Kipnis of QuantStrat TradeR for trading VIX ETPs like XIV and VXX. Ilya provides a framework for testing the robustness of a given set of trading parameters. I encourage you to read Ilya’s piece, but that isn’t the subject of this post. Here I test the
- 4 years ago, 15 Jan 2015, 06:19am -
Schwab Commission Free ETF Rotation System Backtest $SPY, $TLO, $PCY, $RWO, $SHY [Theta Trend]
I’ve been doing a lot of writing about Momentum Based ETF Rotation Systems lately and for good reason. The systems are low maintenance and have historically provided a good return in a variety of market conditions. In this post we’re going to look at backtest results for the Schwab Commission
- 4 years ago, 15 Jan 2015, 06:19am -
What Wednesday’s Partial Recovery Hints At For Thursday [Quantifiable Edges]
One thing that stood out about Wednesday’s action was that the market closed down but still enjoyed a strong reversal of the lows. In the study below I combined the multi-day pullback concept with the fact that the market saw a relatively strong close.
- 4 years ago, 15 Jan 2015, 04:15am -
Using 52-week highs in a S&P500 monthly rotation strategy [Alvarez Quant Trading]
One area of recent interest for me is trading rotational strategies on a monthly timeframe using S&P500 stocks and ETFs. Areas of exploration include Momentum and Dual Momentum. Recently I came across The Secret to Momentum is the 52-Week High??? on Alpha Architect, a blog I highly recommend on
- 4 years ago, 14 Jan 2015, 05:07pm -
Quantitative Momentum Research: Short-Term Return Reversal [Alpha Architect]
Predictable variation in equity returns might reflect either (1) predictable changes in expected returns or (2) market inefficiency and stock price "overreaction." These explanations can be distinguished by examining returns over short time intervals since systematic changes in fundamental
- 4 years ago, 14 Jan 2015, 03:30pm -
Notes From Academia: Exercise Boundary Violations in American-Style Options [Only VIX]
Notes From Academia: Exercise Boundary Violations in American-Style Options Here is the link to the research paper - Exercise Boundary Violations in American-Style Options: The Rule, not the Exception Abstract: An exercise boundary violation (EBV) occurs when the current bid price for an American
- 4 years ago, 14 Jan 2015, 03:30pm -
RUT Iron Condor Equity Curve Comparison - 80 DTE [DTR Trading]
In this post we will look at the equity curves for the three versions of the RUT "no touch" Iron Condor (IC) trades at 80 days to expiration (DTE). The three versions tested were: Standard: 10 put credit spreads, and 10 call credit spreads Delta Neutral: 10 put credit spreads, and from 5
- 4 years ago, 14 Jan 2015, 03:29pm -
Downloading Option Chain Data from Google Finance in R: An Update [Exegetic Analytics]
I recently read an article which showed how to download Option Chain data from Google Finance using R. Interestingly, that article appears to be a close adaption of another article which does the same thing using Python. While playing around with the code from these articles I noticed a couple of
- 4 years ago, 14 Jan 2015, 01:13am -
VRP and Other Measures of Implied Volatility from Trading the Odds [Volatility Made Simple]
This is a follow up to the posts here and here from the always excellent Trading the Odds. We’ve covered TTO’s work previously when we looked at their variation of a “VRP” strategy, comparing implied vs historical volatility to trade VIX ETPs like XIV and VXX. In these new posts, TTO looked
- 4 years ago, 13 Jan 2015, 08:14pm -
Most popular posts - 2014 [Eran Raviv]
Well.. better late than never: The solid winner this year is: R vs MATLAB (Round 3) Followed by a far second Mom, are we bear yet? (2) and third: Detecting bubbles in real time And my own personal favorite for the year:
- 4 years ago, 13 Jan 2015, 03:49pm -
Crude Oil Usually Posts Major Seasonal Low Soon $CL_F $USO [Stock Trader's Almanac]
Crude oil has a tendency to bottom in mid-February and then rally through July (highlighted in yellow in second chart below). It is that early February low that can give traders an edge by buying ahead of a seasonally strong period. Going long crude oil’s July contract on or about February 13 and
- 4 years ago, 13 Jan 2015, 03:49pm -
Sneak Peek: Python for Quants. Volume I [Quant at Risk]
The first professional book on Python programming is coming up very soon! Designed around Quants, Risk Analysts, and Algorithmic Traders in mind, Volume I of Python for Quants will deliver all what is essential to start coding in Python straight away! For more details and sneak peek click here:
- 4 years ago, 13 Jan 2015, 07:14am -
Non-linear Twists in Stock & Bond Correlation [Alphaism]
Stocks and bonds are negatively correlated. Translation: they must move against each other most of the time. Because intuitively, stocks bear higher risk than bonds so investors go to stocks when they want to take more risks and flee to bonds when they feel a storm is coming. Plus the numbers tell
- 4 years ago, 12 Jan 2015, 03:24pm -
The Most (Not) Hated Bull Market [Meb Faber]
I look forward to reading Leuthold’s Green Book every month and the most recent one was great. I asked permission to share the following study as I thought it was revealing. They looked at sentiment levels as published by Investor’s Intelligence – specifically they averaged
- 4 years ago, 12 Jan 2015, 03:24pm -
January Expiration Week Stormy Last 16 Years $SPY $DIA $QQQ [Stock Trader's Almanac]
Over the past thirty-two years, since 1983, the S&P 500’s performance during January’s option expiration week has been essentially a mixed bag. Monday has been up 18 of the last 32 years, Friday is similar; up 16 and down 16, and the entire week has been down roughly three times
- 4 years ago, 12 Jan 2015, 03:23pm -
The One Factor To Save Them All--Leverage [Alpha Architect]
Financial intermediaries trade frequently in many markets using sophisticated models. Their marginal value of wealth should therefore provide a more informative stochastic discount factor (SDF) than that of a representative consumer. Guided by theory, we use shocks to the leverage of securities
- 4 years ago, 12 Jan 2015, 06:20am -
Distance Weighted Moving Averages [System Trader Success]
The distance weighted moving average is another nonlinear filter that provides the basis for further research and exploration. In its traditional form, a distance weighted moving average (DWMA) is designed to be a robust version of a moving average to reduce the impact of outliers. Here is the
- 4 years ago, 12 Jan 2015, 02:23am -
Interviewing the Quants: An Inside Look With “Sanz Prophet†[Godel's Market]
Our first guest for the “Interviewing the Quants†series is Vangelis Maderakis. Many of you probably know him as Sanz Prophet through the eponymous blog (sanzprophet.blogspot.com). Recently, he became a partner at Logical Invest, a successful business dedicated to logical, rules based
- 4 years ago, 11 Jan 2015, 09:17pm -
Dual Momentum Portfolio Update [Scott's Investments]
Scott’s Investments provides a free “Dual ETF Momentum†spreadsheet which was originally created in February 2013. The strategy was inspired by a paper written by Gary Antonacci and available on Optimal Momentum. Antonacci has a new book out, Dual Momentum Investing: An Innovative
- 4 years ago, 11 Jan 2015, 09:17pm -
SPX Iron Condor Comparisons [DTR Trading]
In this post we will look at the backtest results (summary statistics) for the three versions of the SPX "no touch" Iron Condor (IC) trades. The three versions tested were: Standard: 10 put credit spreads, and 10 call credit spreads Delta Neutral: 10 put credit spreads, and from 5 to 10
- 4 years ago, 11 Jan 2015, 04:02pm -
Supervised Learning for Document Classification with Scikit-Learn [Quant Start]
This is the first article in what will become a set of tutorials on how to carry out natural language document classification, for the purposes of sentiment analysis and, ultimately, automated trade filter or signal generation. This particular article will make use of Support Vector Machines (SVM)
- 4 years ago, 10 Jan 2015, 12:35am -
Volatility of Average [Only VIX]
Different commodity including some volatility and bitcoin futures settle to an average value. For example VSTOXX settles to 1 minute sampled average value of the index in the last half hour of trading, Bitmex XBT/USD futures settle to 1 minute sampled average value of the last two hours of trading,
- 4 years ago, 10 Jan 2015, 12:35am -
VIX Trading in 2014 in Four Graphs [Volatility Made Simple]
Simply looking at a graph of a VIX ETP like VXX or XIV doesn’t tell us much about the underlying forces at play in the VIX complex. ETP prices are merely the end result of the relationship between these underlying forces (which is why traders shouldn’t rely too heavily on price to
- 4 years ago, 9 Jan 2015, 08:05am -
Adding a Risk-Free Rate To Your Analyses [QuantStrat TradeR]
First off, before beginning this post, I’d like to make my readers aware of the release of a book that I contributed almost an entire chapter for. Quantitative Trading With R is a primer on quantitative trading in R written by Harry Georgakopoulos, one of Chicago’s better quants. I
- 4 years ago, 9 Jan 2015, 08:05am -
Quantitative Momentum Research: Long-Term Return Reversal [Alpha Architect]
Research in experimental psychology suggests that, in violation of Bayes' rule, most people tend to “overreact†to unexpected and dramatic news events. This study of market efficiency investigates whether such behavior affects stock prices. The empirical evidence, based on CRSP
- 4 years ago, 9 Jan 2015, 08:05am -
Crash-Protecting Your Portfolio With CrashMetrics [Jonathan Kinlay]
In a post on LinkedIn I referred to the concept of CrashMetrics and how it can be used for portfolio protection. It’s a simple approach to the management of extreme risk that works rather well. It can be summarized as “CAPM for crashesâ€. Here’s how it works. Let’s
- 4 years ago, 9 Jan 2015, 08:04am -
S&P500 Year Cycle [Stockdotnu]
ear cycle for S&P500 and the top graph shows mean and median for year 1957 to 2014, the second graph is from 2000 to 2014. The graph is marked with year trading days from 1 to 249.
- 4 years ago, 9 Jan 2015, 03:27am -
Employment Report Overnight Futures Returns Since August 2012 [Overnight Edges]
I have shown the study below a several times in the last year or so, but not since September, and the employment night hot streak remains strong. The overnight futures market has been loving the Employment Report since the summer of 2012. The Employment Report is released at 8:30 AM Eastern
- 4 years ago, 8 Jan 2015, 03:44pm -
VIX Spikes Were Uber Common in 2014 [Volatility Made Simple]
This is a follow up to a piece from the always excellent VIX & More: 2014 Had Third Highest Number of 20% VIX Spikes. V&M finds, as the title suggests, that 2014 exhibited the third most 1-day VIX spikes of at least 20% since 1990. In this post I look at a different definition of VIX spikes
- 4 years ago, 8 Jan 2015, 05:19am -
Monthly ETF Rotation System Rules & Results - $SCHH, $IYR, $TLO, $SPY [Theta Trend]
As some of you know, I recently began trading two monthly ETF Rotation Systems. One is a Basic ETF Rotation system that trades a diverse group of markets and the other covers similar markets using Schwab Commission Free ETF’s. The Basic System is intended to take the place of the ETF Portion
- 4 years ago, 8 Jan 2015, 05:19am -
Dow 20,000: Is 2015 the Year? [GestaltU]
It’s that time of year again. Yup, that jolly, happy time of year when the soothsayers of Wall Street start trumpeting their views on what’s going to happen in 2015, and how to position portfolios to profit. Esteemed Wharton professor, Jeremy Siegel, author of the permabull bible, Stocks for the
- 4 years ago, 8 Jan 2015, 05:00am -
Trading with Estimize and I/B/E/S earnings estimates data [EP Chan]
By Yang GaoEstimize is an online-community utilizing 'wisdom of crowds' to offer intelligence about market. It contains a wide range of crowd-sourced estimates from over 4,500 buy-side, sell-side and individual analysts. Studies (from Deustche Bank and Rice University among others) show
- 4 years ago, 8 Jan 2015, 04:06am -
A Century of Generalized Momentum [GestaltU]
We enjoy collaborating on new research projects simply because nobody has a monopoly on interesting ideas. Where our expertise in asset allocation, tactical strategies and portfolio optimization methods might prove useful, we are always open to discussing new and ongoing research.
- 4 years ago, 6 Jan 2015, 04:54pm -
State of Trend Following in December 2014 [Au Tra Sy]
- 4 years ago, 6 Jan 2015, 08:14am -
A Combination Of Factors Suggesting A Bounce [Quantifiable Edges]
There were a number of Quantifinder studies yesterday that looked at SPY and/or SPX making short-term lows, closing down 3+ days in a row, and/or leaving unfilled gaps down. The study below it combined all of these ideas.
- 4 years ago, 6 Jan 2015, 04:05am -
What Happens After A Big Down Day Between Christmas & New Years [Quantifiable Edges]
As I discussed last week, the time between Christmas and New Year’s tends to be a very strong seasonal period. (And even through the 1st or 2nd trading day in January). Wednesday was only the 11th time since 1960 that SPX fell greater than 1% on a day during this week.
- 4 years ago, 2 Jan 2015, 02:48am -
‘Twas 3 Nights Before Christmas – NASDAQ version [Quantifiable Edges]
I’ve been posting and updating the “Twas 3 Nights Before Christmas” study on the blog here since 2008. The study will kick in at today’s close. This year I will again show the Nasdaq version of the study. While all the major indices have performed well during this period, the
- 4 years ago, 22 Dec 2014, 09:45am -
Trend Following Wizards – Strong November, Strong 2014 [Au Tra Sy]
One of the best months of the year for our Trend Following Wizards. Not so surprisingly after the strong performance of the State of Trend Following Index (nearing +10% return for November).
- 4 years ago, 18 Dec 2014, 05:53am -
Day of month pattern or luck for a monthly ETF rotation strategy? [Alvarez Quant Trading]
From my post on Heikin-Ashi Charts, another researcher wrote Luck: The Difference Between Hired or Fired about how luck of the draw could account for the difference in returns depending on the starting date. This is a completely valid question. Are three better returns for a strategy in a particular
- 4 years ago, 17 Dec 2014, 10:14am -
The Bullish Intermediate-Term Tendency Following High CBI Readings [Quantifiable Edges]
I’ve written an awful lot about the Quantifiable Edges Capitulative Breadth Indicator (CBI) here on the blog. The CBI moved up from 8 to 12 on Tuesday. While 10 has been a strong indication for a short-term bounce, 11 or higher has been a reliable indication for the
- 4 years ago, 17 Dec 2014, 04:20am -
Measuring Tactical Alpha, Part 2 [GestaltU]
When we left off in Part 1, we promised to examine how select Global Tactical Asset Allocation products stack up against the Global Market Portfolio from the perspective of several performance measures – particularly Sharpe ratio, alpha and information ratio. Without further adieu:
- 4 years ago, 12 Dec 2014, 05:00am -