We’re excited to announce the release of a new investment book written by Larry Connors and Chris Cain, CMT. The book, “The Alpha Formula; High Powered Strategies to Beat The Market With Less Risk “ combines… Hedge fund legend Ray Dalio’s brilliant insight into combining uncorrelated strategies… With new, minimally correlated, quantified, systematic strategies to trade […]
Connors Research Traders Journal (Volume 43): Relative Momentum with Low Vol
In this Connors Research Traders Journal, we are going to explore a strategy that combines momentum and low volatility along with a risk management/trend following overlay. This combination results in an impressive performance over the last 16 years, handily beating the S&P 500, especially when viewed from a risk-adjusted return basis. The Momentum and Low […]
Connors Research Traders Journal (Volume 42): Optimize Your Trading By Understanding Volatility Regimes
The following is an excerpt from research presented in our upcoming book “The Alpha Formula” which will be released this summer. Knowing what kind of market you are in is an important step in developing a trading strategy. Ideally, you want your strategy to be optimized for the current market – some strategies do […]
Connors Research Traders Journal (Volume 41): Introducing Connors Research Weekly Mean Reversion
Connor’s Research is perhaps best known for short-term mean reversion strategies, specifically using RSI with short look-back periods to identify times when a security is likely to mean revert. Connors Research were pioneers nearly 20 years ago in showing that shorter-term RSI lookbacks, such as 2-period and 4-period RSIs, are statistically more predictive for identifying […]
Connors Research Traders Journal (Volume 40): Using the Power of Python to Build and Test a High Performing Relative Momentum Stock Strategy
In this Connors Research Traders Journal, we are going to show you how Python and Quantopian can take your trading and strategy testing abilities to the next level. We’ll share with you a strong performing, relative momentum strategy which trades individual US equities, dynamically choosing the strongest stocks from a 500 stock universe. This simple to […]