Although tracking trends in financial markets was once a profitable investment strategy, the approach has fallen on hard times due to crowding. This according to an article in The Wall Street…
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Trend-Following CTAs Suffer Performance Declines
Some quantitative investors are concerned that commodity trading advisers (CTAs) are “ill-equipped to handle a new era of steeper declines and sudden volatility spikes,” according to a recent article in…
Some Ideas for Investing in a Low Return Environment
There is a very strong likelihood that returns for investors over the next decade will be significantly lower than what we have seen in the past ten years. With the…
You Can’t Time The Market – But Many People Should
By Jack Forehand, CFA (@practicalquant) — There are few topics that are more controversial in the stock market than market timing. Most long-term investors will tell you that market timing…