Momentum Trading on the Indian Stock Market

Momentum Trading on the Indian Stock Market
Author: Gagari Chakrabarti
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 123
Release: 2013-03-27
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 8132211278

This study is an exploration of the Indian stock market, focusing on the possible presence of momentum trading. One thing, however, should be noted. While it is true that momentum trading, which tends to generate speculative bubbles, may result in a financial market crash, its nature in contrast might depend on the nature of the economy itself. The study, while exploring the presence and nature of momentum trading on the Indian stock market in recent years, seeks to relate it to significant structural breaks in the Indian or global economy. To be precise, it outlines a potential correlation between the instability in the stock market and the speculative trading on the market, exploring the question of whether it is human psychology that drives financial markets. In the process, the choice of a significant structural break has been obvious: the global financial meltdown of 2007-2008 – a crisis that has often been referred to as the worst ever since the crash of 1929. While analyzing the nature of momentum trading on the Indian stock market with regard to the financial crisis of 2007-08, the study takes into account two major representatives of the market, the BSE (Bombay Stock Index) and NSE (National Stock Index), for the period 2005 to 2012. This study seeks to answer a few important questions. First of all, it tries to unveil the underlying structure of the market. In doing so, it examines the following issues: (i) What was the latent structure of the Indian stock market leading up to the crisis of 2007-08? Does the structure offer insights into designing profitable trading strategies? (ii) Is it possible to construct a profitable portfolio on the Indian stock market? (iii) Is there any profitable trading strategy on the Indian stock market? While exploring these issues, the study delves deeper, breaking the whole period down into two sub-periods, before the crisis of 2008 and after the crisis. The purpose of this division is to determine whether there has been any discernible change in the market structure since the shock.

Quantitative Momentum

Quantitative Momentum
Author: Wesley R. Gray
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 215
Release: 2016-10-03
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 111923719X

The individual investor's comprehensive guide to momentum investing Quantitative Momentum brings momentum investing out of Wall Street and into the hands of individual investors. In his last book, Quantitative Value, author Wes Gray brought systematic value strategy from the hedge funds to the masses; in this book, he does the same for momentum investing, the system that has been shown to beat the market and regularly enriches the coffers of Wall Street's most sophisticated investors. First, you'll learn what momentum investing is not: it's not 'growth' investing, nor is it an esoteric academic concept. You may have seen it used for asset allocation, but this book details the ways in which momentum stands on its own as a stock selection strategy, and gives you the expert insight you need to make it work for you. You'll dig into its behavioral psychology roots, and discover the key tactics that are bringing both institutional and individual investors flocking into the momentum fold. Systematic investment strategies always seem to look good on paper, but many fall down in practice. Momentum investing is one of the few systematic strategies with legs, withstanding the test of time and the rigor of academic investigation. This book provides invaluable guidance on constructing your own momentum strategy from the ground up. Learn what momentum is and is not Discover how momentum can beat the market Take momentum beyond asset allocation into stock selection Access the tools that ease DIY implementation The large Wall Street hedge funds tend to portray themselves as the sophisticated elite, but momentum investing allows you to 'borrow' one of their top strategies to enrich your own portfolio. Quantitative Momentum is the individual investor's guide to boosting market success with a robust momentum strategy.

Weekend Trend Trader

Weekend Trend Trader
Author: Nick Radge
Publisher: Radge Publishing
Total Pages:
Release:
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN:

The Weekend Trend Trader is a trading strategy designed for people who want a simple to follow trading plan that trades just once a week. An ideal investment strategy for people who work full time but are actively planning for their retirement. Weekend Trend Trader is designed for and tested on the US stock Market. The Weekend Trend Trader strategy is a turnkey strategy that uses no discretion. In other words the strategy has a set of rules and users should understand why they entered a trade and when and how they will exit. Because the rules are strictly and mathematically defined we are able to back test the strategy on historical data. This enables us to understand the strategy’s nuances and therefore better understand how the journey to success will be travelled. The strategy is a combination of several tools that: * ensures you will always be aligned with the trend of the broader market * enters positions at specific points and with reasonable confirmation * manages existing positions with a trailing stop loss * defends existing positions if the trend of the broader market reverses * outlines how much to invest in each position. We will fully step through each of these points in detail and slowly build the system from the ground up.

Learn to Trade Momentum Stocks

Learn to Trade Momentum Stocks
Author: Matthew R. Kratter
Publisher: Independently Published
Total Pages: 76
Release: 2018-01-26
Genre:
ISBN: 9781977012166

Learn a powerful trading strategy in just 15 minutes. Then use it to make money for the rest of your life. Ready to get started trading stocks, but don't know where to begin? Momentum stocks are a great place to start. Imagine what it would be like if you started each morning without stress, knowing exactly which stocks to trade. Knowing where to enter, where to take profits, and where to set your stop loss. In this book, you will learn: How to spot a stock that is about to explode higher Exactly when to buy and sell the stock How to screen for the best stocks to trade Insider tricks used by professional traders How to find big winners like Apple and Facebook How to tell if you are in a bull market, or a bear market And much, much more It's time to stop gambling with your hard-earned money. Join the thousands of smart traders who have improved their trading with this book. Amazon best-selling author and retired hedge fund manager, Matthew Kratter will teach you the secrets that he has used to trade profitably for the last 20 years. This strategy is powerful, and yet so simple to use. Even if you are a complete beginner, this strategy will have you trading stocks in no time. And if you ever get stuck, you can always reach out to the author by email (provided inside of the book), and he will help you. Get started today Scroll to the top of this page and click BUY NOW.

The Handbook of Equity Market Anomalies

The Handbook of Equity Market Anomalies
Author: Leonard Zacks
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 352
Release: 2011-08-24
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1118127765

Investment pioneer Len Zacks presents the latest academic research on how to beat the market using equity anomalies The Handbook of Equity Market Anomalies organizes and summarizes research carried out by hundreds of finance and accounting professors over the last twenty years to identify and measure equity market inefficiencies and provides self-directed individual investors with a framework for incorporating the results of this research into their own investment processes. Edited by Len Zacks, CEO of Zacks Investment Research, and written by leading professors who have performed groundbreaking research on specific anomalies, this book succinctly summarizes the most important anomalies that savvy investors have used for decades to beat the market. Some of the anomalies addressed include the accrual anomaly, net stock anomalies, fundamental anomalies, estimate revisions, changes in and levels of broker recommendations, earnings-per-share surprises, insider trading, price momentum and technical analysis, value and size anomalies, and several seasonal anomalies. This reliable resource also provides insights on how to best use the various anomalies in both market neutral and in long investor portfolios. A treasure trove of investment research and wisdom, the book will save you literally thousands of hours by distilling the essence of twenty years of academic research into eleven clear chapters and providing the framework and conviction to develop market-beating strategies. Strips the academic jargon from the research and highlights the actual returns generated by the anomalies, and documented in the academic literature Provides a theoretical framework within which to understand the concepts of risk adjusted returns and market inefficiencies Anomalies are selected by Len Zacks, a pioneer in the field of investing As the founder of Zacks Investment Research, Len Zacks pioneered the concept of the earnings-per-share surprise in 1982 and developed the Zacks Rank, one of the first anomaly-based stock selection tools. Today, his firm manages U.S. equities for individual and institutional investors and provides investment software and investment data to all types of investors. Now, with his new book, he shows you what it takes to build a quant process to outperform an index based on academically documented market inefficiencies and anomalies.

A Wealth of Common Sense

A Wealth of Common Sense
Author: Ben Carlson
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 231
Release: 2015-06-22
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1119024927

A simple guide to a smarter strategy for the individual investor A Wealth of Common Sense sheds a refreshing light on investing, and shows you how a simplicity-based framework can lead to better investment decisions. The financial market is a complex system, but that doesn't mean it requires a complex strategy; in fact, this false premise is the driving force behind many investors' market "mistakes." Information is important, but understanding and perspective are the keys to better decision-making. This book describes the proper way to view the markets and your portfolio, and show you the simple strategies that make investing more profitable, less confusing, and less time-consuming. Without the burden of short-term performance benchmarks, individual investors have the advantage of focusing on the long view, and the freedom to construct the kind of portfolio that will serve their investment goals best. This book proves how complex strategies essentially waste these advantages, and provides an alternative game plan for those ready to simplify. Complexity is often used as a mechanism for talking investors into unnecessary purchases, when all most need is a deeper understanding of conventional options. This book explains which issues you actually should pay attention to, and which ones are simply used for an illusion of intelligence and control. Keep up with—or beat—professional money managers Exploit stock market volatility to your utmost advantage Learn where advisors and consultants fit into smart strategy Build a portfolio that makes sense for your particular situation You don't have to outsmart the market if you can simply outperform it. Cut through the confusion and noise and focus on what actually matters. A Wealth of Common Sense clears the air, and gives you the insight you need to become a smarter, more successful investor.

Bulls, Bears and Other Beasts (5th Anniversary Edition)

Bulls, Bears and Other Beasts (5th Anniversary Edition)
Author: Santosh Nair
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
Total Pages: 424
Release: 2021-11-26
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9390742579

Insightful, interesting and a lot of fun' Ravi Subramanian 'An honest and extremely detailed recounting of the evolution of the market’ BusinessLine 'A delightful book on the stock markets’ Free Press Journal A rip-roaring history of the Indian stock market post liberalization. The wise and wily Lalchand Gupta takes you on an exciting journey through Dalal Street in this comprehensive history of the stock market since 1991. From tech booms and tax evasion to banks and money laundering; scams and crashes to fixers and investors, Lala has seen it all. Bringing the story up to the present, this special fifth anniversary edition also makes keen observations about the developments on the trading floor of the Bombay Stock Exchange in more recent times and doles out smart investing hacks in Lala’s inimitable style. Bulls, Bears and Other Beasts is a must-read for anyone interested in the financial health of the country as well as those who want to know about the sensational events that led up to the far more sterile stock-market operations of the present day.

Green Investing

Green Investing
Author: Gagari Chakrabarti
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 110
Release: 2014-08-28
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 8132220269

This book seeks to answer the essential question of the investment-worthiness of green instruments. It is evident that investing in green and energy-efficient firms will be the most profitable choice for wise investors in the years to come. The reconciliation of the social choice for green technology and investors’ choice for gray technology will be automatically achieved once green firms become more profitable than gray ones, in the Indian context. As there has been very little research done in this area, especially in the Indian context, this book addresses that gap. In order to do so, it follows the development of five different portfolios consisting of 100% green, 75% green-25% gray, 50% green-50% gray, 25% green-75% gray and 100% gray stocks, and attempts to answer questions such as: Do green portfolios entail less relative own-risk as compared to their gray counterparts? How effectively do green portfolios avoid market risk? Are green portfolios inherently more stable? Do green portfolios have a higher probability of surviving a financial crisis? Is the performance of green portfolios backed by their fundamentals? Is there any particular technical trading strategy that can ensure a consistently above-average return from these portfolios?

The Handbook of Trading: Strategies for Navigating and Profiting from Currency, Bond, and Stock Markets

The Handbook of Trading: Strategies for Navigating and Profiting from Currency, Bond, and Stock Markets
Author: Greg N. Gregoriou
Publisher: McGraw Hill Professional
Total Pages: 498
Release: 2010-05-14
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0071743545

Make the post-meltdown markets work for you, using the unparalleled insight of today’s top global investing experts! “This book provides a collection of papers that examine trading execution, technical trading, and trading strategies, as well as algorithms in different markets (equities, forex, fixed income, exchange traded funds, derivatives, and commodities) around the world. This is particularly relevant given the recent explosion in trading volumes.” Tarun Chordia, R. Howard Dobbs Chair in Finance, Goizueta Business School, Emory University “This book uses a number of well-respected authors in the area of asset trading. It provides a comprehensive analysis of trading-related issues covering momentum trading, algorithmic trading, the use of technical trading rules, strategies for ETFs, and the role of trading volume.” Professor John Cotter, Director of the Centre for Financial Markets, University College Dublin School of Business, University College Dublin “The Handbook of Trading is a good reference tool for both practitioners and academics. The contents cover a wide range of topical issues.” Professor Robert McGee, Director of the Center for Accounting, Auditing, and Tax Studies, College of Business Administration, Florida International University About the Book: Given today’s market volatility, even the most advanced investors can be unsure of their next move. Rather than rely on one or two individuals who claim general knowledge on any given investing topic, you need the advice of professionals who have spent their entire careers developing real expertise on more focused sectors of the market. The Handbook of Trading is the only book available that provides just that. Greg N. Gregoriou has amassed forty of the world’s top academics, researchers, and practitioners who explain how to make today’s markets work for you. With this highly technical but ultimately practical guide, you have access to a broad array of trading strategies that will put you light years ahead of the competition—regardless of the state of the market. From technical analysis and momentum trading to algorithmic and FOREX trading, The Handbook of Trading introduces you to techniques and insights never before published, each of which has been rigorously back-tested and analyzed. Chapters include: Performance Leakage and Value Discounts on the Toronto Stock Exchange Lawrence Kryzanowski and Skander Lazrak Trading in Turbulent Markets: Does Momentum Work? Tim A. Herberger and Daniel M. Kohlert Profitability of Technical Trading Rules in an Emerging Market Dimitris Kenourgios and Spyros Papathanasiou Leveraged Exchange-Traded Funds and Their Trading Strategies Narat Charupat The Impact of Algorithmic Trading Models on the Stock Market Ohannes G. Paskelian Applying critical lessons learned from the financial crisis of 2008–2009, the contributors explain how to approach turbulent market environments and adjust your trading methodologies accordingly. The Handbook of Trading is the go-to guide for financial professionals seeking profits in today’s currency, bond, and stock markets. Correlating PowerPoint slides and reading questions created by the contributors appear on http://www.mhprofessional.com/handbookoftrading.