investment strategy

This year's deterioration in economic prospects, now complemented with a banking crisis in the US and the inevitable demise of Credit Suisse, has strengthened expert...

Hedging is far more art than science and it’s rarely as simple as just shorting the market. There are many ways investors can de-risk

What is in and out of sample testing? In-sample testing and out-of-sample testing are two methods used to evaluate the performance of a trading strategy. In-sample...

An overfitted trading strategy is a model that has been trained on a specific dataset and has learned the noise in that dataset, rather than the underlying trend. This...

Optimisation of a trading strategy is the process of adjusting the parameters of a strategy to achieve the best performance. Why should you optimise a strategy? ...

Frame Funds Management's Hue Frame explains quantitative investing and how it can work in investment strategies.

A healthy bull market for equities has both macro and micro feeding optimism and upside. Alas, February has not delivered the required unity

When conducting strategy research and development, we like to think in terms of what the new strategy will add to our current portfolio of systems. In general, we are...

Sometimes the most important market insight is hiding underneath daily share price movements. Intriguingly, the latest update into who's buying and selling US...

Market downturns are painful to go through and are an unavoidable part of investing.  The way you handle periods when your investment portfolio is declining, can...

Key Points: ‍• Whether the market has troughed or will make new lows depends on whether the Fed is able to achieve a moderation in inflation without too much...

The critical narrative in markets in recent months has been that: “The Fed will tighten until something breaks”. That theme was reinforced by Powell at last month’s...

Take a good look at your investments. Are they all based on solid investment philosophy and strategy? Or a random mix selected based on factors like your mood or a hot...

In the end, corporate results season throughout August was not as bad as many had feared. The obvious observation to add is that while most companies managed to cope...

Airlie's Emma Fisher is normally a glass half-full investor. Given equity markets typically rise six out of every seven years in an average cycle, there is good reason...

The August corporate reporting season is now mid-month in Australia, but in terms of actual numbers the harvest to date is still tiny. FNArena's Corporate Results...

They say that numbers don't lie - but no one ever said that numbers can't be confusing. The signals for a global recession have been mixed, to say the least. On the...

 If I were to make a good-humoured attempt at an old fashioned Dad-joke, I'd start off with: I am old enough to remember when corporate reporting season in...

Reading equity markets research and strategy reports from around the world, two trends have clearly emerged in recent weeks: a growing acceptance/belief the US...

When America sneezes, the world catches a cold. The US is already halfway to a technical recession, with the most recent quarter recording a slight contraction. And...