Answer To: We have built spreadsheet models of foreign exchange trading strategies. The assignment for this...
Kushal answered on Jun 19 2021
Introduction-
A quantitative hedge fund is moving into different asset classes apart from the traditional equities and it was us to research into different trading strategies and their performance over the span of last 20 years. We will look into forex trading which are widely popular and these are as follows – 1. Carry trade, 2. PPP value, 3. Order flow. Apart from the historical performance, we will also look at behavior of these strategies in the time of economic depression and try to predict what can happen during the COVID 19.
Carry Trade-
The carry trades strategy works on the premises of the covered interest rate parity. Based on this, ideally the higher interest rate currency should depreciate against the lower interest rate currency due to the interest rate differentials so that the arbitrage opportunities will not arise. However, this condition is not always true and investors can make profits by borrowing the low interest rate currency and investing in high interest rate currency. If a high interest rate currency, after a period of time does not depreciate as much as predicted or rather appreciate the investor or trades will benefit (Jurek, 2014).
As we can see, in the graph, barring a few recession months, overall the carry trades have been largely profitable. In the excel file, we have taken two positions in two currencies based on the percentage of the forward premium. We assume that the currency with the highest forward premium will not depreciate that much and we will end up taking a long position in the future markets in that currency (Burnside, 2011). On the other hand, we will take a short position in the currency with the lowest forward premium or at times with a forward discount.
Carry trades are extremely vulnerable to the crisis times. The reason behind this is that during the crisis, all the currencies do depreciate against the United States Dollar, due to capital outflows and FIIs closing their positions in the other countries. Flight to quality events will lead to depreciation of the currencies and these carry trades will have extreme losses. In the global financial crisis, the cumulative returns dropped my more than 60 percent in the span of 5 to 6 months. Hence, carry trades are negatively skewed due to extreme negative returns. Please find below the return distribution.
As we can see in the graph, the numbers of instances where the positive returns are observed are much higher as compared to the number of months with the negative returns. However, the negative returns are much higher than the positive returns in terms of quantum. This can lead to wealth destruction in few months due to overleveraged trades and can take you out of the markets.
COVID 19
During the times of Pandemic, the carry trades will lead to losses if the strategy is continued. The crisis will increase the cash outflows from the other countries in the search of less volatility and more protection. This will increase the demand for the USD and it will strengthen. We will see the similar situations and similar losses in this strategy as we saw in the 2008.
IMF PPP Value
As per the purchasing price parity, the country with higher inflation rates should depreciate in the long terms and with the lower inflation rates should appreciate. Based on this, the exchange rates can be predicted. Just like the interest rate parity condition, PPP should hold so that arbitrage opportunities do not exist (Middleton, 2005). By arbitrage we mean that, buying a basket of goods from the lower inflation and selling it in another country (Bilson, 1984).
In this strategy, we will take a long position in the currency where we have the highest difference between the spot exchange rate and the rate which justifies the purchasing power parity. We will be short on the USD. On the other hand, we will take a short position in the currency where the difference between the spot exchange rate and the PPP value is the lowest. We will go long on USD. This will be replicated across each month and based on the difference a currency pair will be identified.
As we can see in the graph, this strategy provides superior cumulative returns over the carry trade strategy. The major reason behind this is the dip we see in the global financial crisis, which is much lesser than the carry trade strategy. As we know in the economic terms, prices of goods are sticky and the increase in the prices of the goods is not sharp. This will ensure that during the times of crisis, the currencies with the highest differentials do not see extreme depreciation and the currency with the lowest differentials will not see appreciation or might see some depreciation.
COVID 19 –
With this strategy, the negative returns will not be as high as we observed in the carry trade strategy, due to the macroeconomic fundamentals in the countries we take position in. The difference between the carry trade and the order flows strategy is the way we take the position in the currency pairs and accordingly execute trades. The PPP strategy gets impacted lesser to the crisis and hence gives better protection from downside risk (Cho and Doblas-Madrid, 2014)
Order Flows Strategy
The order flow strategy, as compared to the previous two strategies, is rather unidirectional since only one trade is executed. This strategy is a momentum strategy where based on the speculation using the transactions flow or the order flows, a position is taken. When the order flow is huge in the forex markets by a large institution, it is believed that bigger players in the market are putting more money and hence, this trend should continue (Rime, Sarno, and Sojli, 2010). The biggest task here is to obtain the very confidential order flow data, which is not available to everyone (Lyons, 2001)
The performance of the trading strategy, as compared to the other two strategies, is ordinary. The cumulative returns over the given time period is much lesser than the carry trade. However, in the bad economic times. This strategy has given better protection to the trades as compared to the other strategies which eroded the wealth of the trades.
COVID 19
Order flows strategy is a momentum strategy and this will perform better as compared to the other two strategies in the times of crisis. Momentum strategy will look at the volume trades in the given direction and accordingly follow the trend. In the COVID 19 times, based on this strategy, a long position in the USD will take place and its appreciation will lead to profits.
Conclusion
The carry trade strategy provides the highest returns among three strategies. The downside risk of carry trade in the crisis environment is extremely high and hence at this time for better protection, order flow strategy should be used since that gives better protection and it rather follows a trend. On top of this, the order flow strategy takes the position in line with the large players and hence, more sophisticated trades can be placed during the bad economic times. The PPP strategy can also be implemented in the bad economic time, since it shows lesser negative returns as compared to the carry trade.
References
Carry Trades –
Jurek, J.W., 2014. Crash-neutral currency carry trades. Journal of Financial Economics, 113(3), pp.325-347.
Burnside, C., 2011. Carry trades and risk (No. w17278). National Bureau of Economic Research.
PPP –
Bilson, J.F., 1984. Purchasing power parity as a trading strategy. Journal of Finance, pp.715-724.
Middleton, A., 2005. Trading style analysis: a quantitative assessment of the currency industry. The Journal of Alternative Investments, 8(1), pp.14-28.
Cho, D. and Doblas-Madrid, A., 2014. Trade intensity and purchasing power parity. Journal of International Economics, 93(1), pp.194-209.
Brière, M. and Drut, B., 2009. The revenge of purchasing power parity on carry trades during crises (No. 09-013. RS). ULB--Universite Libre de Bruxelles.
Order flows –
Rime, D., Sarno, L. and Sojli, E., 2010. Exchange rate forecasting, order flow and macroeconomic information. Journal of International Economics, 80(1), pp.72-88.
Lyons, R.K., 2001. New Perspective on FX Markets: Order‐Flow Analysis. International Finance, 4(2), pp.303-320.
Carry Returns
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