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JWBT468-c05 JWBT468-Burghardt March 12, 2011 0:41 Printer Name: Courier Westford
Two Benchmarks for Momentum Trading 109
through the end of August of each calendar year, use the month of September
to reselect markets, analyze the data, and construct the portfolio that will be
used from October of the current year through September of the following
year. Thus, any given calendar year’s returns will reflect nine months of returns
from the portfolio constructed in the current year and three months of returns
from the portfolio constructed from the previous year.
As it was, we had 50 futures markets at the end of August 1997. These
were ...