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Design and analysis of momentum trading strategies

General Finance 2023-01-19 v2 Statistical Finance

Abstract

We give a complete description of the third-moment (skewness) characteristics of both linear and nonlinear momentum trading strategies, the latter being understood as transformations of a normalised moving-average filter (EMA). We explain in detail why the skewness is generally positive and has a term structure. This paper is a synthesis of two papers published by the author in RISK in 2012, with some updates and comments.

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@article{arxiv.2101.01006,
  title  = {Design and analysis of momentum trading strategies},
  author = {Richard J. Martin},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2101.01006},
  year   = {2023}
}

Comments

v2: Expanded the Appendix