Blending trading styles
As we discovered in Chapter 6, The Trading Edge is a Number, and Here is the Formula, mean reversion strategies have a negative skew. A few titanic losses will sink the ship. Trend following strategies have a positive skew. A few princes will make up for all the frogs. Both strategies have good and bad attributes that can be summarized in the following table:
Mean Reversion |
Trend Following |
Hybrid |
|
Win Rate |
High |
Low |
High |
Volatility |
Low |
High |
Low |