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Could Trend-Following Be A Successful Trading Strategy? (Part V)

So far in this series, we’ve only explored the long-only aspect of trend following. However, since we are using derivatives anyway, there is nothing stopping us from going short as well. But should you? The US-centric discussion around trend-following typically assumes that you go both long and short. The kicker for Indian domiciled traders is […]

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12 Dec 2024
 

Could Trend-Following Be A Successful Trading Strategy? (Part IV)

Our previous post on trend-following used cross-correlations to pick a diverse set of assets and then split the time series to arrive at asset-specific lookback periods to power a binary on/off signal. There are a few drawbacks to this approach: Indian rules and regulations allow a very narrow set of assets to be traded. Being […]

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04 Dec 2024
 

Could Trend-Following Be A Successful Trading Strategy? (Part III)

Part I and Part II of our trend-following series illustrated the value of diversification and how it can be used to reduce portfolio drawdowns. The challenge is finding uncorrelated instruments as an Indian-domiciled trader. Irrespective of how you slice it, Indian equity indices are correlated to each other, we only have a handful of commodity […]

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21 Nov 2024
 

US Fed Rate Cut: How it affects traders and investors?

The US central bank – the Federal Reserve (the “Fed”) – meets every other month to set short-term rates. Given the vaunted position held by the American economy and sheer size of assets linked to these rates, the meetings draw a lot of attention. It is understandable that rates, bond, and currency traders spend a […]

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20 Sep 2024
 

JPY-USD: The Great Carry Trade

The ‘USD—Yen’ carry trade has been all over the news lately. The term ‘Carry trade’ may come across as a fancy new trading technique, especially to newbies to the capital market.

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31 Jul 2024