Price momentum(PM), or the rate of acceleration of a security's price or volume, is a key factor for many investors. Momentum investing involves capitalizing on the continuance of an existing market trend. This includes going long on stocks showing upward-trending prices and shorting the respective assets with downward-trending prices.
For Price momentum, we provide short-term, mid-term, long-term and composite (or breadth momentum) factors.
The demonstration of price momentum performance shows the comparison of different price momentum portfolios. Portfolios were rebalanced quarterly using a market-cap weighted method, with 20 basis points deducted as costs per transaction.
Annual Return |
Cumulative Return |
Volatility |
Sharpe ratio |
Calmar ratio |
Max Drawdown |
Omega ratio |
Sortino ratio |
Skew |
Kurtosis |
Tail ratio |
Monthly value at risk |
Alpha |
Beta |
SPY |
9.12% |
586.56 |
14.57% |
0.67 |
0.17 |
-52.56% |
1.66 |
1.01 |
-0.60 |
1.39 |
0.98 |
-0.06 |
0.00% |
1.00 |
Price Momentum 1 | Price Momentum 3 | Price Momentum 6 | Price Momentum 12 | Price Momentum 1 Skip | Price Momentum 3 Skip | Price Momentum 6 Skip | Price Momentum 12 Skip | Breadth Momentum | Breadth Momentum Skip |
9.09% | 11.43% | 9.32% | 10.23% | 10.70% | 10.19% | 7.57% | 8.51% | 8.14% | 9.21% |
582.95 | 991.82 | 615.03 | 759.34 | 844.26 | 751.99 | 400.89 | 507.50 | 463.11 | 599.28 |
26.52% | 28.32% | 30.02% | 31.65% | 27.02% | 26.81% | 28.47% | 30.38% | 28.61% | 27.43% |
0.46 | 0.52 | 0.44 | 0.46 | 0.51 | 0.49 | 0.39 | 0.42 | 0.42 | 0.45 |
0.13 | 0.16 | 0.12 | 0.13 | 0.16 | 0.15 | 0.10 | 0.11 | 0.10 | 0.13 |
-71.99% | -70.67% | -75.60% | -76.57% | -67.46% | -69.51% | -73.86% | -77.24% | -77.67% | -69.16% |
1.51 | 1.59 | 1.49 | 1.52 | 1.58 | 1.53 | 1.41 | 1.45 | 1.46 | 1.49 |
0.74 | 0.89 | 0.76 | 0.80 | 0.85 | 0.83 | 0.66 | 0.71 | 0.67 | 0.76 |
0.74 | 0.96 | 1.29 | 1.14 | 0.85 | 0.76 | 1.06 | 0.98 | 0.58 | 0.97 |
9.00 | 8.28 | 9.66 | 8.30 | 8.43 | 6.11 | 7.89 | 6.81 | 8.14 | 8.04 |
1.02 | 1.11 | 1.03 | 1.14 | 1.07 | 1.06 | 1.08 | 1.22 | 1.03 | 1.02 |
-0.12 | -0.12 | -0.13 | -0.14 | -0.12 | -0.12 | -0.13 | -0.13 | -0.13 | -0.12 |
0.16% | 2.15% | 0.23% | 1.09% | 1.79% | 1.34% | -1.15% | -0.34% | -0.94% | 0.51% |
1.53 | 1.61 | 1.66 | 1.72 | 1.53 | 1.52 | 1.58 | 1.66 | 1.64 | 1.53 |