A note on constant proportion trading strategies

  • Authors:
  • Martin B. Haugh

  • Affiliations:
  • -

  • Venue:
  • Operations Research Letters
  • Year:
  • 2011

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Abstract

We consider constant proportion (CP) trading strategies when there are multiple underlying securities and use a recently derived expression for the terminal wealth of a CP strategy to address two issues. First, we characterize the performance of a CP strategy relative to the performance of the corresponding buy-and-hold strategy. We then explain the performance of leveraged ETFs which have been criticized for not performing as expected, particularly during the financial crisis of 2008.