Profitability of technical stock trading: Has it moved from daily to intraday data, страница 6

The single rates of return can be considered as absolute returns in cents if one assumes that there is always 1$ in the game (value of any open position). The sum of all positive (negative) returns gives the gross profits (losses). The gross rate of return (per year) is then the difference between gross profits (per year) and gross losses (per year). If one subtracts transaction costs one gets the net rate of return (the number of transactions is always twice the number of open positions and, hence, of the single returns).

The gross rate of return (GRR) of any technical trading model can be split into six components, the number of profitable/unprofitable positions (NPP/NPL), the average return per day during profitable/ unprofitable positions (DRP/DRL), and the average duration of profitable/unprofitable positions (DPP/DPL). The following relationship holds:[9]

GRR = NPP4DRP4DPP − NPL4DRL4DPL

Table 1

Components of the profitability of 2580 trading system by subperiods and classes of the t-statistic.

Number of models                                                     Mean for each class of models

Absolute

Share       Gross rate       t-statistic        Profitable positions

in %         of return                               Number per year         Return per day        Duration in days

Unprofitable positions

Number per year          Return per day

Duration in days

1960–1971

2580

100.0           8.6                  2.30            6.8                           0.08                       44.2

8.7                              −0.12

13.3

1972–1982

2580

100.0           2.0                  0.45            6.7                           0.10                       40.9

11.5                            −0.16

12.8

1983–1991

2580

100.0 −0.0                       −0.01              6.4                           0.11                        40.3

12.9                            −0.16

13.5

1992–2000

2580

100.0 −5.1                      −1.12              6.3                           0.09                       40.2

14.1                            −0.16

12.8

2001–2007

2580

100.0 −0.8                      −0.15              6.4                           0.09                       43.3

12.6                            −0.15

13.5

1960–2007

2580

100.0          1.5                  0.74             6.5                           0.09                       42.1

11.7                            −0.15

13.1

t-statistic b0

888

34.4 −1.2                        −0.61              5.7                           0.09                       40.1

10.1                            −0.15

14.2

0–b1

803

31.1            0.9                  0.46            4.7                           0.08                       51.9

8.8                              −0.13

16.1

1–b2

449

17.4            3.1                  1.47             6.1                           0.09                       45.6

11.7                            −0.14

12.6

2–b3.0

217

8.4              5.0                  2.43            9.5                           0.11                        28.9

16.4                            −0.17

7.2

>3

223

8.6              8.3                  4.07           14.2                           0.13                       21.2

23.4                            −0.20

4.7

Table 2

Components of the profitability of 2580 trading systems by subperiods and classes of the t-statistic.

                   Number of models                                                       Mean for each class of models

Absolute      Share in %      Gross rate       t-statistic        Profitable positions

                               of return                              Number per year        Return per day            Duration in days

Unprofitable positions

Number per year           Return per day

Duration in days

1983–1991

2580            100.0              −5.1               −0.97           6.4                            0.11                       39.3

14.0                             −0.17

13.7

1992–2000

2580            100.0              −6.7               −1.59           6.5                            0.08                       38.6

14.4                             −0.16

13.0

2001–2007

2580            100.0                 1.6                 0.32          6.6                            0.09                       43.7

11.9                             −0.14

13.5

1983–2007

2580            100.0              −3.7               −1.34           6.5                            0.09                       40.5

13.5                             −0.16

13.3

t–statistic b0

2361              91.5              −4.1               −1.48           6.6                            0.09                       39.2

14.1                             −0.16

12.6

0–b1

217                  8.4                 0.6                 0.21          4.7                            0.08                       53.8

7.4                              −0.12

20.6

1–b2

     2               0.1                 2.8                 1.04          5.2                            0.09                      40.1

7.1                              −0.12

17.3