Research Article

[Retracted] Research on the Performance of the Trend Following Trading Strategy in the Chinese Commodity Market

Table 1

Statistics for backtesting results.

Original (in sample)Original (out of sample)Refinement (in sample)Refinement (out of sample)

Return
 Cumulative return-5.93%-0.51%22.35%9.67%
 Annualized return-0.70%-0.27%2.35%4.89%
 Sharpe ratio-0.52-0.225-0.0140.21
 IR-0.06-0.0130.080.19
 Transaction cost0.96%0.22%8.05%1.56%

Risk
 Volatility6.08%12.11%7.84%11.75%
 Skewness0.190.29-0.050.27
 Kurtosis7.813.915.521.58
 Maximum drawdown-10.46%-10.93%-14.03%-7.12%
 VaR (95%)0.58%1.21%0.78%1.23%
 VaR (99%)1.13%2.48%1.38%2.16%
 Calmar ratio0.070.024-0.17-0.69
 Efficacy37.50%45.45%37.66%59.09%

Correlation
 Correlation (commodity index)46.66%57%36.02%47.22%
 Correlation (stock index)44.28%35%34.59%32.01%