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 |
7.78% |
376.67 |
14.68% |
0.59 |
0.15 |
-52.56% |
1.56 |
0.86 |
-0.59 |
1.38 |
0.95 |
-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 |
8.36% | 10.40% | 8.13% | 9.53% | 9.46% | 9.27% | 6.65% | 7.71% | 7.38% | 8.19% |
432.67 | 686.25 | 409.38 | 566.30 | 556.85 | 533.84 | 282.08 | 369.63 | 340.59 | 415.27 |
26.99% | 28.79% | 30.60% | 32.25% | 27.40% | 27.22% | 28.96% | 30.90% | 29.16% | 27.84% |
0.43 | 0.48 | 0.40 | 0.44 | 0.46 | 0.46 | 0.36 | 0.39 | 0.39 | 0.42 |
0.12 | 0.15 | 0.11 | 0.12 | 0.14 | 0.13 | 0.09 | 0.10 | 0.10 | 0.12 |
-71.99% | -70.67% | -75.60% | -76.57% | -67.46% | -69.51% | -73.86% | -77.24% | -77.67% | -69.16% |
1.48 | 1.55 | 1.44 | 1.50 | 1.52 | 1.49 | 1.37 | 1.42 | 1.42 | 1.45 |
0.70 | 0.82 | 0.69 | 0.76 | 0.77 | 0.76 | 0.60 | 0.66 | 0.62 | 0.70 |
0.75 | 0.98 | 1.31 | 1.14 | 0.88 | 0.78 | 1.08 | 0.99 | 0.59 | 1.00 |
8.86 | 8.20 | 9.48 | 8.11 | 8.47 | 6.08 | 7.80 | 6.70 | 7.94 | 8.03 |
0.99 | 1.10 | 1.01 | 1.11 | 1.02 | 1.04 | 1.06 | 1.17 | 0.95 | 1.00 |
-0.12 | -0.12 | -0.13 | -0.14 | -0.12 | -0.12 | -0.13 | -0.14 | -0.13 | -0.12 |
1.60% | 3.45% | 1.44% | 2.82% | 2.79% | 2.59% | 0.18% | 1.19% | 0.61% | 1.68% |
1.55 | 1.63 | 1.68 | 1.75 | 1.54 | 1.54 | 1.60 | 1.68 | 1.67 | 1.54 |