S&P 500 (SPY)
The trading rules of the edge read like this (please also backtest yourself – you might find a way to improve it):
The trading edge behaves slightly differently depending on the close in relation to the 200-day moving average.
Trading performance if exit after N-days (100 000 and compounding):
There is a pretty negative edge in the near term.
Mean reversion trading strategies are still working very well in the stock market, at least in the main indices and the majority of the sectors. Back in 2013, we published a backtest that looked at the performance of S&P 500 (SPY) when both Thursday and Friday were down days. This was one of the first…
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Today we are presenting three free mean reversion strategies. They were partially published on this website a few years back, and today we make some minor adjustments and present their performance on different ETFs. Furthermore, we discuss why mean reversion works and which markets are best for mean reversion trading strategies, and also some historical…
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