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 |
Q1 | Q2 | Q3 | Q4 | Q5 | Q6 | Q7 | Q8 | Q9 | Q10 |
9.09% | 11.41% | 10.81% | 11.85% | 10.75% | 9.71% | 10.19% | 10.27% | 6.88% | 7.21% |
582.95 | 986.31 | 865.80 | 1085.40 | 852.62 | 674.79 | 752.03 | 766.43 | 334.24 | 364.82 |
26.52% | 20.35% | 18.44% | 18.06% | 17.10% | 16.28% | 15.91% | 16.02% | 17.12% | 18.73% |
0.46 | 0.63 | 0.65 | 0.71 | 0.69 | 0.65 | 0.69 | 0.69 | 0.47 | 0.47 |
0.13 | 0.18 | 0.21 | 0.25 | 0.24 | 0.22 | 0.23 | 0.22 | 0.12 | 0.12 |
-71.99% | -62.50% | -50.43% | -48.17% | -45.45% | -44.61% | -44.89% | -46.97% | -56.62% | -58.32% |
1.51 | 1.71 | 1.70 | 1.79 | 1.75 | 1.68 | 1.72 | 1.72 | 1.45 | 1.45 |
0.74 | 1.03 | 1.00 | 1.14 | 1.07 | 0.99 | 1.08 | 1.08 | 0.72 | 0.72 |
0.74 | 0.23 | -0.35 | -0.19 | -0.41 | -0.54 | -0.33 | -0.32 | 0.04 | 0.28 |
9.00 | 4.99 | 4.97 | 4.41 | 4.50 | 3.83 | 2.45 | 2.84 | 4.25 | 5.22 |
1.02 | 1.18 | 1.02 | 1.21 | 1.22 | 1.00 | 1.21 | 1.28 | 1.00 | 0.93 |
-0.12 | -0.09 | -0.08 | -0.07 | -0.07 | -0.07 | -0.07 | -0.07 | -0.07 | -0.08 |
0.16% | 3.22% | 3.09% | 4.09% | 3.40% | 2.66% | 3.25% | 3.49% | 0.24% | 0.66% |
1.53 | 1.24 | 1.14 | 1.12 | 1.06 | 1.02 | 0.99 | 0.97 | 1.01 | 1.03 |