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RESEARCH PRODUCT

Performance Measurement and Outperformance Tests

Valeriy Zakamulin

subject

Measure (data warehouse)Moving averageComputer scienceEconometricsParametric methodsPerformance measurementTrading strategyStatistical hypothesis testing

description

This chapter explains how to evaluate the performance of a trading strategy and how to carry out a statistical test of the hypothesis that a moving average trading strategy outperforms the corresponding buy-and-hold strategy. In particular, it argues that there is no unique performance measure, reviews the most popular performance measures, and points to the limitations of these measures. The chapter then surveys the parametric methods of testing the outperformance hypothesis and the current “state of the art” non-parametric methods.

https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-60970-6_7