Each strategy trades in a single stock or ETF, and is occasionally in an inverse ETF to profit from declines.
LRCX: +30.3%
AAPL: +10%
Dow 1x: 0.0%
AMD: 1.4%
NASDAQ 1x: 17.4%
I'll tell you something very interesting about their current holdings in just a minute...
...first, let's talk about a lesson with Apple.
There was a great deal of chatter about AAPL's under-performance earlier this year.
Traders who don't test believed the under-performance relative to the S&P 500 would continue so they were shorting it.
Jim Simons made billions by buying under-performance (and simultaneously shorting the S&P 500). He and his crew of scientists actually did the hard work of testing how markets work using computers.
They observed -- as have I -- that stocks revert to their mean more often than not. It's a phenomena that came into being with the advent of index futures in the 80's.
At first the AAPL strategy was down for the year, then it caught the big mean reversion trade, sending the strategy up 10% on the year:
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