We examine the financial implications of shifting assets from equities to fixed-term investments, such as certificates of deposits (CDs) and fixed-rate annuities, particularly during periods of market downturns. Our study demonstrates that such a shift, often driven by fears of market...

Can simple technical analysis add value to index option selling investment strategies? To test this, I propose a dynamic allocation approach to construct option writing portfolios. Unlike the standard passive Buy-Write (covered call) and Collateralized Put-Write strategies, an active leveraged...

Draw-down losses from a previously reached maximum portfolio wealth level, is an important risk measure for investment management. In this study, we present a discrete trading strategy to directly control a portfolio's maximum percentage of drawdown within a target level while maximizing the...

Volatility-based filtering is proposed to pre-process historical daily return data of stock indexes before applying to price-based technical analysis trading rules. Any “nearly flat” days which have daily gains or losses less than a threshold about 20% of a daily volatility measure, is...