Submit a Story!
Short-Term Mean-Reversion vs. Trend-Following
Short-Term Mean-Reversion vs. Trend-Following
Wednesday’s session provided an excellent example why it pays to not only look at the pure number of winning trades vs. losing trades (Winning Trades in %) and/or the Profit Factor (sum of all profits on winning trades divided by the sum of all losses on losing trades), but to take ...
Comments
Related Content
The State of Short-Term Mean-Reversion: July, 2009
marketsci.wordpress.com 8/11/2009 — This is the first in what will be a monthly health check of short-term mean-reversion in the US market. Short-term mean-reversion (by “short-term”, think for example RSI(2) ) is so important to what we swing-traders are doing right now ...
The State of Short-Term Mean-Reversion: September, 2009
marketsci.wordpress.com 10/9/2009 — *** CLICK TO ZOOM *** This is our monthly health check of short-term mean-reversion in the US market. Why a health check? Because short-term MR (by “short-term”, think for example RSI(2) ) is so important to what we index swing-traders are ...
The State of Short-Term Mean-Reversion: August, 2009
marketsci.wordpress.com 9/5/2009 — *** CLICK TO ZOOM *** This is our monthly health check of short-term mean-reversion in the US market. Why a health check? Because short-term MR (by “short-term”, think for example RSI(2) ) is so important to what we swing-traders are doing ...
My Trades on a Trend Day
stockpunk.blogspot.com 5/13/2009 — A couple of the three StockPunk readers have expressed an interest in seeing actual examples of trades that I've taken during the day. Although the day isn't over yet, I thought I'd post some trades that I took today. I've erased the number of shares I purchased so you wouldn't be overwhelmed by ...
Trading the Odds on Monday – October 12, 2009
tradingtheodds.com 10/10/2009 — As Michael Stokes in his latest (strongly recommended) post The State of Short-Term Mean-Reversion: September, 2009 already pointed out, short-term mean reversion is currently not the ‘ play du jour ‘, and instead of retracing recent gains (as historical probabilities and odds ...
Reversion From The Mean
dailyoptionsreport.com 9/18/2009 — Some chatter recently on the historically large disparity between the SPX and it's 200 Day Moving Average. Don Fishback takes a look here . Also,  Minyanville ran this chart yesterday and it highlights both how far above we sit now compared ...
Short-term Mean-Reversion Becoming Stronger: Part II (The Why)
marketsci.wordpress.com 2/12/2009 — This is a (long overdue) follow up to my first post showing that day-to-day stock market mean-reversion is becoming stronger. Understanding this shift is key to trading short-term swing strategies like RSI(2) or adaptive daily follow-through . In ...
Short-term Mean-Reversion Becoming Stronger: Part IV (So What?)
marketsci.wordpress.com 2/16/2009 — One last post to wrap up this discussion about short-term (daily) stock market mean-reversion becoming stronger (read part 1 , part 2 , and part 3 ). This has been a pretty geeky conversation so far, and I’m afraid that I haven’t answered the most ...
A trend day that wasn't
stockpunk.blogspot.com 6/16/2009 — Trend days are usually my best days of the month, so I was interested in the opening action today as we had a large gap down. There wasn't much of a pause and the market continued to head downward.I noticed that when price inched back after the first 20 minutes that it couldn't overcome the ...
Trend following?
hf-implode.com 8/23/2009 — "Some equations do work. Good hedge fund + rough quarter = buying opportunity. As expected many hedge funds have performed very well so far in 2009. It is no surprise that the market dislocations, misvaluations and panic-selling hysteria created fantastic opportunities for the best absolute ...