momentum based strategies for low and high frequency trading
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Momentum Trading Strategies: Low & High Frequency
December 3, 2015
By QuantInsti
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Agenda
• Introduction: Momentum Trading
• Popular Momentum Trading Strategies
• Momentum Trading in HFT
• Risks in Momentum Trading
• Sample Model
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Agenda
• Introduction: Momentum Trading
• Popular Momentum Trading Strategies
• Momentum Trading in HFT
• Risks in Momentum Trading
• Sample Model
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Momentum Trading
• Momentum Trading Strategies are the oneswhere your trading decision is done byobserving significant movements in adirection along with relatively higher volumes
– Event Triggers (ex)
– Indicators based
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Does it work?
• Physics: Momentum & Impulse
• Why variation across asset classes?– Different key participants, different behaviour
– External factors, seasonality
• Technical & Quantitative Analysis
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Agenda
• Introduction: Momentum Trading
• Popular Momentum Trading Strategies
• Momentum Trading in HFT
• Risks in Momentum Trading
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Momentum & Oscillators
• Momentum
• ROC
• RSI
• Stochastic Oscillator
• MA Crossovers
• MACD
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Agenda
• Introduction: Momentum Trading
• Popular Momentum Trading Strategies
• Momentum Trading in HFT
• Risks in Momentum Trading
• Sample Model
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HFT Momentum Trading Strategies
• Tick level Analysis
– Order Book Based
– Order Based
• Transaction cost
• Defining Exits
– Exits at waning momentum
– Exits at high momentum (Contrarian)
• Quoting versus Hitting
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Agenda
• Introduction: Momentum Trading
• Popular Momentum Trading Strategies
• Momentum Trading in HFT
• Risks in Momentum Trading
• Sample Model
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Risks in Momentum Trading Strategies
• Purely Directional
• Entry/Exit Timing
• False Alarms
– Risks in Machine Readable News based triggers
– False Newsfeeds/Twitter alerts!
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Agenda
• Introduction: Momentum Trading
• Popular Momentum Trading Strategies
• Momentum Trading in HFT
• Risks in Momentum Trading
• Sample Model
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Sample Model
• Entry: Price & Volume Filters + Consecutive Higher(Buy) or Lower (Sell) Prices
• Exit: Consecutive lower acceleration/impulse in ROC
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Q&A
Thank You
Merci
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Gracias
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Disclaimer
All content of this presentation and sample model ofthe webinar are for educational purposes only andshould not be construed as any financial or investmentadvice. QuantInsti does not take any responsibility forthe correctness of the content or the performance ofthe model.