Algorithmic Trading 3: Intraday Momentum

This episode details various momentum trading strategies for futures and stocks, focusing on both interday and intraday approaches. It explores the causes of momentum, including roll returns, information diffusion, forced fund transactions, and market manipulation. The text presents multiple strategies, including time-series and cross-sectional momentum techniques, leveraging news sentiment, and exploiting mutual fund behavior. Finally, it examines high-frequency trading strategies that capitalize on order book imbalances and stop-order triggers, contrasting the pros and cons of momentum versus mean-reverting approaches.