Continuing research has firmly established
momentum as an anomaly that works well within and across nearly all markets including equities, stock indices, currencies, commodities, real estate, and fixed income.
Not exact matches
For some analyses, they segregate these
anomalies into four categories: (1) firm event - related (such
as stock issuance); (2) market (such
as momentum); (3) valuation (such
as earnings - price ratio); and, (4) fundamental (such
as acruals).
He measures the attractiveness of adding
anomaly premiums to the benchmark portfolio by comparing Sharpe ratios, Sortino ratios and performances during recessions of five portfolios: (1) a traditional portfolio (TP) that equally weights equity, term and default premiums; (2) an equal weighting of size, value and
momentum premiums (SVM)
as a basic
anomaly portfolio; (3) a factor portfolio (FP) that equally weights all 10
anomaly premiums; (4) a mixed portfolio (MP) that equally weights all 13 premiums; and, (5) a balanced portfolio (BP) that equally weights TP and FP.
One of the great
anomalies of investing: The historical long - term outperformance of certain smart beta or factor - based strategies relative to the broader equity market (think choosing stocks based on their valuations,
momentum, low volatility or quality metrics such
as profitability).
The book does not take a position on questions like value versus growth, or behavioral economics, or any of the
anomalies in the market such
as momentum.
Price
momentum is the «premier
anomaly» in the investment world that you can use to your advantage
as long
as you know how to use it in the right way.
The secondary model was derived from a set of pieces written here (one, two), about four months ago, about the time that the
momentum anomaly began to become overused (and right prior to the hard drive crash — I need to rebuild that model
as well — I know its main result, but my proof is gone).
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.