Contrarian strategy means constantly zigging when others zag, and perhaps the most overused and clichéd theory involves the supposed struggles of teams in the midst of a prolonged road trip.
A contrarian strategy means the fund's managers view periods of market volatility as an opportunity to build positions that they think have good long - term value potential.
Not exact matches
«None of this
means, however, that a business or stock is an intelligent purchase simply because it is unpopular; a
contrarian approach is just as foolish as a follow - the - crowd
strategy.
We also see a massive increase in the volume of bets, which
means that many of our regular season
contrarian strategies can be thrown out the window.
LSV frame their
Contrarian Investment, Extrapolation and Risk findings in the context of «contrarianism,» arguing that value
strategies produce superior returns because most investors don't fully appreciate the phenomenon of
mean reversion, which leads them to extrapolate past performance too far into the future.
In
Contrarian Investment, Extrapolation, and Risk, Josef Lakonishok, Andrei Shleifer, and Robert Vishny argued that value
strategies produce superior returns because most investors don't fully appreciate the phenomenon of
mean reversion, which leads them to extrapolate past performance too far into the future.
LSV's
contrarian model argues that value
strategies produce superior returns because of
mean reversion.
This would seem to indicate that, at an aggregate level at least,
mean reversion is a powerful phenomenon and a pure
contrarian investment
strategy relying on
mean reversion should work.