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Using an Autoregressive Model to Predict the Price-to-Earnings Ratio and Develop an Investment Strategy

Posted on September 10, 2021 By 
In a previous post, we highlighted an article that showed how useful accounting numbers are. In this post, we will present a concrete example of an application of accounting numbers in portfolio management. Reference showed that the Price-to-Earnings ratio is a mean-reverting process, and it can be accurately estimated …
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Momentum Trading Strategies Across Capital Markets

Posted on September 1, 2021 By 
Momentum trading is a popular investment strategy. Loosely speaking, it consists of periodically buying groups of outperforming stocks and selling non-winning stock portfolios. We have presented studies that demonstrated the trending property of equity indices in the long term. This led to the possibility of developing profitable momentum investment strategies. …
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Are Econometric Models Useful in Trading?

Posted on August 26, 2021 By 
We have previously presented time series analysis for identifying autocorrelation properties of stock indices and econometric techniques such as ARIMA and GARCH for estimating volatilities. We also highlighted an article that demonstrated the usefulness of advanced volatility estimators in trading by reducing trading strategies’ turnover. On the same topic, …
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Stop Losses in Options Trading

Posted on August 16, 2021 By 
A financial option is a rather complex instrument. Unlike delta-one products, an option value depends not only on the underlying, but also on volatility, time to maturity, strike, interest rate, and dividends. Options have been used as hedging instruments, but they’re becoming a speculative vehicle these days thanks to a …
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Is Cointegration the Best Method for Pairs Trading?

Posted on August 10, 2021 By 
Pairs trading is a classic “market-neutral” trading strategy. Previously, we highlighted an article that claims that cointegration is a superior method for selecting pairs . On the same topic, Reference examined more pair selection methods. Specifically, it investigated the following approaches, Distance: Pairs are identified by using distance metrics. …
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Do Arbitrage Opportunities Still Exist?

Posted on August 5, 2021 By 
The arbitrage principle is one of the cornerstones of modern finance, and it’s being used widely, from derivative pricing to hedging, trading, and risk management. Theoretically, there is only one arbitrage principle. Practically, however, there are other types of arbitrage, some of which are relaxed forms of the strictest one. …
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An Application of Volatility Estimators

Posted on August 3, 2021 By 
Volatility estimators are a useful tool in volatility trading and risk management. We have discussed several types of volatility estimators, ranging from the simple Close-to-Close Historical Volatility to more complex ones like the Garman-Klass-Yang-Zhang volatility. As discussed in Reference , volatility estimators can also be used directly in delta-one trading …
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Are Accounting Numbers Useful?

Posted on July 31, 2021 By 
Accounting numbers are prevalent in financial reporting, business valuation, and investment management. They’re so frequently used that the practitioners rarely asked pragmatic questions such as: are they useful, do they account for some meaningful risks, can they be used to price assets. A recent article attempts to bring some …
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