Stocks & Commodities V. 39:06 (8–13): Creating More Robust Trading Strategies With The FM Demodulator by John F. Ehlers

Creating More Robust Trading Strategies With The FM Demodulator by John F. Ehlers

Market data is made up of cyclical components. Cycles contain both signals and noise. It’s a concept that underpins market timing and can be crucial to success. Last month we introduced the concept of using the AM (amplitude modulation) and FM (frequency modulation) components of cycles to better time trades. In this article, we follow up with an example of how you can use this idea in your trading strategies. It’s a process that just might be considered foundational to quantitative analysis.

Last month in the May 2021 issue of STOCKS & COMMODITIES, I introduced the concept of using an FM demodulator to identify and isolate volatility components from the timing components in market data ...