Trend Following Made Easy: How to Create a CTA from Scratch

IF 0.4 Q4 BUSINESS, FINANCE

Journal of Alternative Investments Pub Date : 2023-03-02 DOI:10.3905/jai.2023.1.186

Nicolas Rabener

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Abstract

CTAs have generated strong returns in 2022 and regained investors’ interest in improving portfolio diversification. However, given their nature of being simultaneously long and short multiple asset classes and constantly changing their portfolios, they often are viewed as black-box strategies. We show that CTA performance can be approximately replicated top-down by using just four asset classes, as well as by creating a CTA bottom-up utilizing 59 indexes. Neither process is complicated and both increase transparency on the investment process and portfolio construction of CTAs, which may help investors become more comfortable with this investment strategy.

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趋势跟踪变得简单:如何从零开始创建CTA

CTA在2022年产生了强劲的回报，并重新获得了投资者对改善投资组合多元化的兴趣。然而，考虑到它们同时做多和做空多个资产类别并不断改变投资组合的性质，它们通常被视为黑匣子策略。我们表明，通过仅使用四个资产类别，以及通过使用59个指数创建自下而上的CTA，可以近似自上而下地复制CTA性能。这两个过程都不复杂，都增加了CTA投资过程和投资组合构建的透明度，这可能有助于投资者对这种投资策略更加适应。

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Journal of Alternative Investments BUSINESS, FINANCE-

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1.50

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14.30%

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