2013-06-02
A great quant read!
Chan's latest book is an excellent follow-up from his prior! This book brings the reader to today's markets, and discusses why pairs are needed more than ever for successful mean-reversion trading, and how momentum strategies have been less effective since the financial crisis.
The author does not provide ready-to-run recipes (although there are examples), but instead shows how the hypotheses of return factors can lead to effective strategies, and how their simplicity can avoid many of the common pitfalls in quantitative trading.
MATLAB code is provided from his website which illustrates all examples in much detail.
For anyone interested in the next steps of quantitative finance, this book is an excellent read!