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jwat

Are Some Stocks More Prone To Trend Than Others

By jwat, in Technical Analysis

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I've done a lot of work with trying to use trend-following systems as applied to stocks (backtesting). They simply do not perform very well. I've read about the success of some trades applying trend-following strategies to the commodity and forex markets (like the Turtles for example), but those same strategies do not seem to work on stocks on the whole. I suspect this is because stocks (on the whole) are not as 'trendy' and tend to mean revert more often (versus commodities).

 

Questions for the forum: Has anyone ever developed a technical indicator or other quantitative measure to determine if some stocks are consistently more likely to trend than others?

 

Has anyone ever applied a comparitive study between the forex/commodity and stock markets with respect to how likely they are to trend?

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