Trend following the S&P 500 is probably not the sexiest thing to do. Back in 2012 Meb Faber published a paper called A Quantitative Approach To Tactical Asset Allocation in the Journal of Wealth Management. Meb Faber found the 200-day moving average useful and decided to look at the following simple trend following system in…
Pairs Trading Strategy involves being neutral to the direction of the market. This article looks at what pairs trading is, how it works, and its advantages and disadvantages (pros and cons). The main benefit of pairs trading is market neutrality. In the end, we test some simple pairs trading strategies. Pairs trading is profitable and…
The stochastic indicator is a standard indicator in any trading platform, but we rarely see it published or used in any Stochastic trading strategies. Compared to the RSI, stochastics seems much less popular. Is that because it’s less useful, or is this a hidden gem? The stochastic indicator does work in a stochastic trading strategy….
WilliamsVixFix indicator was invented back in 2007 when the well-known trader and “indicator innovator” Larry Williams wrote an article in Active Trader about VIX and how you can create your synthetic VIX for any security you like. The aim of Williams was to create a “synthetic” VIX reading for other instruments than the S&P 500,…
Instrument/asset Gold (GLD) Trading rules The trading rules of the edge read like this (please also backtest yourself – you might find a way to improve it): Today is an outside day; and The IBS is lower than 0.4; and The 5-day RSI is above 50. The trading edge behaves slightly differently depending on the…
Instrument/asset S&P 500 (SPY) and Gold (GLD) Trading rules The third Monday of January is a non-trading day since 1998 – Martin Luther King Day (MLK). It has been a holiday since 1986. The January MLK week has been weak. We make the following trading rules: (The trading rules of the edge read like this…
We have previously published an article on using RSI on SPY (relative strength index). The RSI has proven to be a valuable indicator/tool for mean reversion in the main stock indices. Today we present an RSI trading strategy. In this article, we look at how the RSI performs on QQQ – an RSI mean reversion…
This article presents an ETF rotation strategy. Sector rotation is popular and this is not without merit. The idea is to be in the sector that shows the best recent momentum. Today we present an ETF momentum rotation trading strategy based on monthly data in EEM, SPY, and TLT. In this short article, we give…
Below is a simple and easy trading strategy to implement in SPY or the S&P 500: The classical mean reversion strategy in the S&P 500 In plain English the strategy reads like this: Trading Rules [/am4show] The equity curve since January 2000 looks like this (starting with 100 000 in equity and allocating 100% of…
Below is a simple and easy trading strategy to implement in QQQ. Let’s go straight to the trading rules: Trading Rules [/am4show] The equity curve since January 2000 looks like this (starting with 100 000 in equity and allocating 100% of equity to every trade, ie. compounding, but taxes are not deducted): Worth noting is…
