8 Quantitative Trading Strategies (Rules, Settings, And Backtests Analysis)

You might stumble upon supposedly quantitative trading strategies based only on anecdotal evidence in the vast ocean of online resources. However, untested methods and strategies offer little more than hollow promises. We believe in providing examples of strategies that have been thoroughly scrutinized, backtested, and “proven” to deliver consistent results. It doesn’t need to be advanced – just look at the quantitative trading strategies below. As a matter of fact, trading should be done as simple as possible!

We have been quantitative traders, both retail and proprietary, for over two decades since we started in 2001, and below we provide you with 8 quantitative trading strategies that might help you trade better. It’s not investment advice, far from it, but it shows how you can develop simple ideas into a portfolio of trading strategies. All strategies were developed many years ago, some were published on this website as far back as 2012, and the quant trading strategies have proven to hold up well after publication.

All strategies in the article are backtested and have many years of out of sample backtsting.