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Hehe I do understand..But are they really mean reverting? the stochastic DE for a stock price is
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assuming it grows by u....I assume it is a silly doubt...How do you define the lows and the high??
 
The question you should be asking is "How do I figure out if stock prices are mean reverting?"
 
You can define highs and lows using lookback data, a specified window of time. Backtesting gives empirical data of entry and exit signals, it could be specific to sector or other factors.

Certainly there's tests for mean-reversion but a stock is mean-reverting usually in a narrow time range, and it's not necessarily a strong reversion, and may not repeat for some time. You just want to be right more often than wrong, and make more when you win than when you lose. Probabilty, expectation.

Good reference for this sort of thing http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1153505
 
@joel_b: Since you are suggesting papers on statistical arbitrage I am assuming the property of stocks being mean reverting is used more often in High Frequency trading strategy when the equities are range bound or volatile. But as a long term trading strategy is practically difficult to implement cause most of the time for buy low sell high strategy to work we have to be able to predict a recession and an high growth cycles...
@Yike Lu: I guess that would have been a more apt question. Could I also rephrase the question in a such a way, how do we predict the price is going to be range bound?
 
@joel_b: Since you are suggesting papers on statistical arbitrage I am assuming the property of stocks being mean reverting is used more often in High Frequency trading strategy when the equities are range bound or volatile. But as a long term trading strategy is practically difficult to implement cause most of the time for buy low sell high strategy to work we have to be able to predict a recession and an high growth cycles...?

Maybe read it first, me suggesting a paper does not imply it being for high-frequency trading.Are papers only written on high-frequency trading?

You choose your window man. if you read the paper it's a daily close price strategy with a 60 day window i.e. within a quarterly earnings cycle. Predict a recession? Growth cycles? That isn't mean reversion at all, quite the opposite you're talking about momentum strategies.
 
Thanks that helped a lot..The stat arb is a bad doubt cause my only exposure to it is from a book on HFT...I understand it a little better...Thank you Amanda too...Me needs to learn a lot more
 
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