The purpose of this blog is to discuss topics in the ETF space. The ETF industry is exploding as an alternative to hedge funds. In this blog topics that will be covered will be Trading Systems and Trading Strategies, Risk Management and Hedging, whats new in ETFs in terms of product offerings etc. The idea is for this blog to act as a resource for end users of ETFs. Such end users may be private offices, hedge funds, insurance companies, asset managers.
Friday, March 23, 2012
Results Of the EWJ (JAPAN MODEL)
Japan has been in the doldrums for two decades. If you invested $1MM in the EWJ ETF in July 2002 it would be up to $1.34MM today. On the other hand our timeing model would be worth $3.598MM. The worst year for the model occurred in 2006 down 7.81% when the underlying ETF was up 5%. However in 2008 when EWJ was down 26.95% the model was up 35.17%. The model has 71% winning trades and is considerably less volatile. Overall the Japan Model outperforms the underlier overwhelmingly in the last ten year period. Enclosed find the results. For 2011 the underlier was down 16.5% but the model was up 4.09%. This year the underlier is out paceing the model. This model uses almost ten years of end of day data and so appears fairly robust.
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