Introduction Trend following is one of the alternative investment strategies that has potential to perform in both rising and falling markets, including crises. These strategies utilize a systematic approach where models seek to identify trends in market, with an assumption that the trend will continue (upward moving markets will continue to rally and downward moving […]
Category: Systematic Investing
Systematic investing is an investment style that can be used to build an automated portfolio in different conditions. The Systematic investing offers several benefits over conventional discretionary investing because portfolios are generated automatically by adhering to a set of criteria based on data-driven insights and sophisticated computer modelling approaches. Systematic, quantitative, or occasionally algorithmic investing […]
In our previous post How To Design A Systematic Strategy, we discussed the various elements that go into making a systematic strategy, here we shall look at the data component in a little more detail and try to understand various data sources and the practical aspects we need to be mindful of before using them. […]
Having previously discussed about types of Popular Systematic Strategies, we shall try and address the question of how does one go about actually designing one. Specifically, we shall look at the various elements of a strategy and the considerations within each. Bear in mind that the order of steps listed here is generalized and some […]
While we shared a brief introduction to systematic trading here, this article looks at some of the more popular strategies in the space. While we’ve focused on popular strategies in the Indian context, all the below mentioned styles are prevalent in global markets as well. At the broadest level, most strategies can be classified into one […]
What is systematic investing? Systematic: “Done or acting according to a fixed plan or system”. Systematic investing (aka quantitative investing) is a data driven investment approach which follows a set of pre-defined rules and applies them in an unbiased way on a target universe. Each of the italicized terms tells us about important facets of the approach: a) Data driven: Data is at […]