{"id":2134813,"date":"2020-09-07T18:50:51","date_gmt":"2020-09-07T13:20:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stockviz.biz\/index.php\/?p=2134813"},"modified":"2024-04-21T11:52:26","modified_gmt":"2024-04-21T06:22:26","slug":"factors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stockviz.biz\/index.php\/2020\/09\/07\/factors\/","title":{"rendered":"Factors"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Some portfolios you&nbsp;<em><strong>consistently&nbsp;<\/strong><\/em>ended up with higher returns, implying that there was something about the market, something systematic, that was driving them. What are these factors? <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/stockviz.biz\/index.php\/2020\/08\/16\/factors-intro\/\" target=\"_blank\">Factors, Intro<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Systematically accounting for excess returns became an academic sack race. Factors, <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/stockviz.biz\/index.php\/2020\/08\/23\/factors-the-famous-5\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Famous 5<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">While <em>fundamental<\/em> factors play a role in explaining excess returns, <em>technical<\/em> factors cannot be ignored either. Thus, <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/stockviz.biz\/2020\/08\/30\/the-momentum-factor\/\" target=\"_blank\">Momentum<\/a>. While the market can be sliced-and-diced in many different ways, here&#8217;s a simple way to go about it: <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/stockviz.biz\/index.php\/2020\/09\/03\/the-all-star-backtest\/\" target=\"_blank\">The All Star Backtest<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Most momentum strategies use a <a href=\"https:\/\/stockviz.biz\/2023\/04\/14\/momentum-skip-month\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">skip month<\/a>. What happens if you don&#8217;t? And what happens if you skip two? Does it make sense to <a href=\"https:\/\/stockviz.biz\/index.php\/2024\/04\/21\/momentum-rebalance-frequency-part-ii\/\">rebalance weekly<\/a>?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Momentum portfolios are extremely volatile. But, is it possible that a portfolio of less volatile stocks out-perform the market? Ergo, <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/stockviz.biz\/2020\/09\/06\/the-low-volatility-anomaly\/\" target=\"_blank\">the Low Volatility Anomaly<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Turns out, you can boost returns of a low-volatility strategy by adding a bit of momentum. <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/stockviz.biz\/2023\/04\/13\/volatility-volatility-of-volatility-and-momentum\/\" target=\"_blank\">VOLxMOM<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Both <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/stockviz.biz\/2020\/09\/27\/factor-rotation\/\" target=\"_blank\">Factor Rotation<\/a> (buying what worked best in the past) and <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/stockviz.biz\/index.php\/2020\/10\/04\/factors-buy-all-of-them\/\" target=\"_blank\">Multi-Factor<\/a> (buying all factors) work. As long as you stick with it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some portfolios you&nbsp;consistently&nbsp;ended up with higher returns, implying that there was something about the market, something systematic, that was driving them. What are these factors? Factors, Intro Systematically accounting for excess returns became an academic sack race. Factors, The Famous 5 While fundamental factors play a role in explaining excess returns, technical factors cannot be &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2080363,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3933],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2134813","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-collections","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stockviz.biz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2134813","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stockviz.biz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stockviz.biz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stockviz.biz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stockviz.biz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2134813"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stockviz.biz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2134813\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stockviz.biz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2080363"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stockviz.biz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2134813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stockviz.biz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2134813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stockviz.biz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2134813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}