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20142019
most citedTwo centuries of trend following

4 citations · 4 across the 2 of their papers we have counts for

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8 papers

q-fin.PM2019

The Case for Long-Only Agnostic Allocation Portfolios

Pierre-Alain Reigneron, Vincent Nguyen, Stefano Ciliberti +2

We advocate the use of Agnostic Allocation for the construction of long-only portfolios of stocks. We show that Agnostic Allocation Portfolios (AAPs) are a special member of a fami…

q-fin.ST2019

How should you discount your backtest PnL?

Adam Rej, Philip Seager, Jean-Philippe Bouchaud

In-sample overfitting is a drawback of any backtest-based investment strategy. It is thus of paramount importance to have an understanding of why and how the in-sample overfitting…

q-fin.PM2017

Black was right: Price is within a factor 2 of Value

J. P. Bouchaud, S. Ciliberti, Y. Lempérière +3

We provide further evidence that markets trend on the medium term (months) and mean-revert on the long term (several years). Our results bolster Black's intuition that prices tend…

q-fin.PM2017

Trends and Risk Premia: Update and Additional Plots

Tung-Lam Dao, Daniel Hoehener, Yves Lempérière +3

Recently, our group has published two papers that have received some attention in the finance community. One is about the profitability of trend following strategies over 200 years…

q-fin.PM2017

You are in a drawdown. When should you start worrying?

Adam Rej, Philip Seager, Jean-Philippe Bouchaud

Trading strategies that were profitable in the past often degrade with time. Since unlucky streaks can also hit "healthy" strategies, how can one detect that something truly worryi…

q-fin.PM2016

Agnostic Risk Parity: Taming Known and Unknown-Unknowns

Raphael Benichou, Yves Lempérière, Emmanuel Sérié +4

Markowitz' celebrated optimal portfolio theory generally fails to deliver out-of-sample diversification. In this note, we propose a new portfolio construction strategy based on sym…

q-fin.GN2014

Risk Premia: Asymmetric Tail Risks and Excess Returns

Y. Lempérière, C. Deremble, T. T. Nguyen +3

We present extensive evidence that ``risk premium'' is strongly correlated with tail-risk skewness but very little with volatility. We introduce a new, intuitive definition of skew…

q-fin.PM2014★ 4 cited

Two centuries of trend following

Y. Lempérière, C. Deremble, P. Seager +2

We establish the existence of anomalous excess returns based on trend following strategies across four asset classes (commodities, currencies, stock indices, bonds) and over very l…