Momentum Strategy FY 2025-26
Markets continue to build on the momentum ever since April 1st 2025 marking a great end to the First Financial Quarter of 2025-26. The Government of India through RBI’s policy actions has now cut interest rates by about 75bps (0.75%) since the beginning of 2025 and this is supposed to stimulate the economy by enabling businesses […]
FY 2024-25: A Year in Review
As most of our followers are aware, the FY 2024-25 year has now come to a close on March 31st 2025. In continuing our tradition of updating our followers, we will now review QuantMomo strategy performance for the Financial Year and also provide some data about comparisons with competitor ETF (Exchange Traded Funds) and Mutual Fund […]
2024: A Year in Review
QuantMomo had another great year for Calendar Year 2024. Continuing our quest to democratize Quantitative rules-based investing, 2024 was all about onboarding customers to the platform and enabling them to participate in the investment process aided by a mobile app. We successfully integrated the platform with an online Indian stock broker, AngelOne, and are continuing […]
2023: A Year in Review
In early 2023, we launched QuantMomo to democratize quantitative rules-based investing and introduced momentum strategies for both the Indian and US stock markets. Both the strategies went live and we gathered an audience and interest in tracking and trading the strategy. We invested our capital in these strategies and achieved stellar results in India while […]
Momentum Investing – What is it and is it right for me?
Many of our readers may have heard about Momentum investing. When analyzing the stock market, one can always find stocks that move up more than others on any given day. These stocks can be thought of as having positive momentum and can go higher. The idea of momentum investing is to find stocks that tend […]
QuantMomo Momentum Strategies – Backtesting Results
When evaluating strategies that the common investor could benefit from, we considered the following: Simplicity – The strategy had to be simple to understand, implement and follow Fit – Whether the strategy fits with the overall rules-based investment approach Engagement – Should be an engaging and rewarding experience for users. Returns or Performance – Is […]
What are Quant Strategies?
Quantitative strategies generally refer to trading and investment strategies that follow a set of rules for: 1 Entering and exiting trades 2 Generating signals for entry and exit decisions 3 Determining whether to go long or short 4 Allocating capital to different securities, strategies (long, short, hedged etc.,) based on calculated risk 5 Setting goals […]
What are the Goals and Objectives of Investments?
The goal of any investment is to produce a positive return on money invested (Capital Appreciation). There are many choices available to investors today and they include Stocks, Bonds, Real Estate, Commodities, Private Equity, Venture Capital etc. Most of these categories of investments are typically tracked by specific indexes (Example: For US stocks the most […]
Why Quantitative Momentum?
Before we get into and present a momentum strategy, we want to answer the ‘Why” question. Why should one engage in Quantitative momentum investing? Does it work and does it produce superior returns? First, there is a lot of research on momentum investing – I have read, researched and am convinced that Momentum investing works. […]