Not exact matches
Gold has 5000 years of history behind it
as currency, blink and you might miss the
reversion to the
mean of Gold being money again.
It's possible we're facing the final stage of this particular economic cycle,
as a majority of fund managers suspect, but
mean reversion could eventually bring conditions back
to «normal.»
Clearly, adding a small out - of - range segment
to a normally
mean - reverting chart can make it look (at least temporarily)
as if the
mean reversion doesn't exist.
The mechanism for the lower returns, in my view, is not going
to be some kind of sustained
mean -
reversion to old - school valuations,
as the more bearishly inclined would predict.
The title has a sly double
meaning, referring both
to protagonist Léo's penchant for getting horizontal with nearly every person he encounters while tooling around the French countryside, seeking inspiration for a screenplay he never quite gets around
to writing, and
to the inherent difficulty of just being human, which Guiraudie imagines
as a constant battle against
reversion to an animal state.
If I use 2002
to 2006
as my OOS sample data for a
mean reversion test, is that cheating?
The infatuation with growth at any price has reached an historic extreme,
as shown, and sets up for a
reversion to the
mean, which should be meaningful for value investors.
Situations in which
mean reversion does not happen are rare enough
as to make a
mean reversion assumption a consistent friend
to the investor.
As to why, my theory is that it's because of the popularity of
mean reversion strategies and quantified trading.
In all of my years of doing quantitative analyses of equity and debt markets,
as well
as the economy
as a whole, my models have shown me that there is a tendency toward
mean -
reversion, but it is a very weak tendency that is swamped by shocks
to the system in the short run.
As for the Treasury market — the yield on the securities will always serve as an aid to mean - reversion, and if there is no fundamental change, it will happen quickl
As for the Treasury market — the yield on the securities will always serve
as an aid to mean - reversion, and if there is no fundamental change, it will happen quickl
as an aid
to mean -
reversion, and if there is no fundamental change, it will happen quickly.
Each of these factors is likely
to be temporary; if the rationale for high multiples goes away, then we'll get
mean reversion in CAPE, possibly
as a severe market downturn.
I think it would be helpful
to post either monthly or quarterly updates
to the graphs above, so
as to get a gauge on how
mean reversion is progressing.
Another great post, the results are consistent with my research into using stops with a
mean reversion system, although trading without them has its own implications
as you tend
to have the occasional heavy loss
to deal with.
Given a quality database, such
as could be Norgate with delisted stocks, how many years of data would you recomend
to properly test a
mean reversion stategy?
With asset allocation, you're using the recent performance of you portfolio
as a whole
to identify the under - performing areas, then
to increase your investment in them in the expectation that there will be a
reversion to mean (i.e. the index is selling for cheaper than what they're «worth»).
If that's the case, we're at what can be considered a local max for Apple but it's more likely that
as time goes by — and random events pile on — things will never
to the
mean (this is quasi-
mean reversion).
Carlisle's work succeeds on two levels: It is both a gripping account of some of the most notable episodes in the history of shareholder activism
as well
as an instructive guide
to profiting from
mean reversion and activist opportunities in today's market.
This is known
as «
reversion to the
mean» and it's something I expand on significantly in my advanced Forex trading course.
Mauboussin observes that
reversion to the
mean is a powerful force, and it impacts return on invested capital
as it does many other data series.
As Figure 1 shows,
mean reversion sets in up
to one - third of the time.
I expect
to see some «
mean reversion» here this year,
as the relationships return
to normal.
As a general matter, if you're following a Graham / Schloss «group of stocks» strategy, I think you have
to pay more attention
to mean reversion with both ROIC and growth rates.
DeBondt and Thaler attribute the earnings outperformance of the companies in the lowest quintile
to mean reversion, which Tweedy Browne described
as the observation that «significant declines in earnings are followed by significant earnings increases, and that significant earnings increases are followed by slower rates of increase or declines.»
The counterintuitive element is that companies within the lowest price -
to - book quintile — not, by any
means, earnings machines — tend
to grow earnings faster than companies in the highest price -
to - book quintile, a phenomenon that value investors recognize
as «
mean reversion».
Though the momentum anomaly (weak
as it has been recently) usually favors portfolios with stronger price momentum, the relationship breaks down over longer periods of time, and more severe moves, where
mean -
reversion tends
to take over.
-LSB-...] investors refer
to contrarian investing
as a phenomenon that takes advantage of
reversion to the
mean.
James argues
mean -
reversion strategies are alive and well
as long
as markets continue
to swing from a cheery consensus
to gloom and vice versa.
More generally,
as first documented by DeBondt and Thaler (1987), a stock, on average, experiences short - term
mean reversion on a monthly horizon, then momentum on the horizon of up
to a year, and then
mean reversion on the horizon larger than a year and strongest over 2
to 3 years.
Speaking of which, his professional touchstone in managing investments — his firm had «more than US $ 97 billion in assets under management
as of December 2011» — is «
reversion to the
mean»:
There goes that little Einstein by the name of Kim, who can't figure out that the sun goes through the same
reversion -
to - the -
mean fluctuations
as the earth.
WHT describes Earth climate (and the Sun)
as being best approximated
as a random walk with a
reversion to mean characterisics over the long term.
The earth's climate in the last several hundred thousand years has always been best described
as a long - term random walk with
reversion -
to - the -
mean characteristics.
I applied the SOI since it goes back
to 1880 and one can see the cumulative trend of CO2 forcing together with the natural variations, the latter which largely cancel out
as they go + / - around a
reversion to the
mean.
It is probably better described
as an Ornstein - Uhlenbeck type of red noise model with a strong
reversion to the
mean, i.e. 0C.
«For those reasons, we see a
mean reversion play out over the coming months
as players look
to cash in and late - coming bulls are flushed, with support in the $ 400s, at which point a pump and dump cycle may start once again,» he said.
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