His first one was also good, in my opinion at least!
His first one was also good, in my opinion at least!
Simon, great and very useful review, thanks! Got me motivated to buy a copy.
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What Fawce doesn't know because he's on the road is that 3 copies arrived in the office already ;)
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He would be an excellent, excellent speaker for one of your meetups. I would fly to Boston to catch him if I had to. :)
+1 for Ernie's book. His first was a good foundation, and this is a great follow-up. Now, gotta go back through the examples and dig into the downloaded code -- hard to digest that while reading, for me!
Ernie stresses how few stocks now work well with mean-reversion, and that momentum strategies are also less effective since 2008. But, he likes pairs of cointegrating securities, usually of ETFs, futures, or currencies. In my (non-quantopian) backtests, I tend to agree - squeezing $ out seems to only work via fundamentals for an individual security/market (imho), as TA has become more challenged in a single security. Tom was making a similar point on tastytrade recently, how pairs will be more of the common future, vs. only the hedge funds doing so. Not just hedging, but expressing a long this / short that opinion.
A highly recommended read for anyone with a quant interest.