@SIAM FM21

13 June 2021

The VKY Analytics talk on “Uncovering Momentum with Intertemporal Analysis” was presented at the SIAM Conference on Financial Mathematics and Engineering (FM21) held over June 1-4. Consolidating and extending the SSRN working paper and TDS article, the talk delivered two major takeaways. First, the study explicitly explained the momentum effect for 2011-2019 as the sampling of high volatility growth stocks. Second, the talk introduced our new fsharadar extension of the Zipline-based open-source research platform for running diverse financial economics studies.

The pdf copy of the slides and associated notebooks are available on github: https://github.com/ymalitskaia/uncovering-momentum.

Uncovering Momentum

23 February 2021

In this post we review our latest studies leading to the explanation of the momentum premium, a long-term ongoing challenge.  Documented in 1993 by Jegadeesh and Titman, the momentum phenomenon remained an open question with no single model dominating the narrative (Fama on Momentum, 2016). Our research transparently explains the momentum premium for 2010-2019 as the sampling of high volatility growth stocks. These results were derived through a sequence of two SSRN working papers.