Mom12mOffSeason · Other · Heston and Sadka (2008)

Momentum without the seasonal part

Long minus short decile portfolio, value-weighted, market-adjusted. Quarterly, 1926Q3 to 2024Q4.

Expected return · posterior mean, % per year, averaged over the window
Next quarter
2026Q4
16.22%
95% interval 10.91% to 21.85%
Next year
2026Q4–2027Q3
16.19%
95% interval 10.88% to 21.78%
Next five years
2026Q4–2031Q3
16.08%
95% interval 10.85% to 21.61%

Forecast made 16 Sep 2026, conditioning on this portfolio's OAP returns, which end 2024Q4. The 7 quarters between then and 2026Q4 are unobserved and are integrated out under the model.

Cumulative market-adjusted return

+33,218,205% since 1926Q3 · log scale

Past performance, annualized

Window Mean Vol. Sharpe t
1926Q3–2024Q4 16.82% 26.46% 0.64 6.31
2020Q1–2024Q4 31.83% 35.29% 0.90 2.02
2024Q1–2024Q4 42.68% 22.56% 1.89 1.89

Forecast Sharpe ratio, annualized

Window Mean 95% interval P(neg)
2026Q4 0.61 0.41 – 0.83 <0.01
2026Q4–2027Q3 0.61 0.41 – 0.81 <0.01
2026Q4–2031Q3 0.59 0.39 – 0.79 <0.01
Category
Other
Form
Continuous
Data
Price
Sorted on
High minus low
Names per leg
184.5 long / 185 short median · 71 at the 10th pctile
Original sample
1965–2002