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Goldman Tweaks Sharpe Ratio To Project Future

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Mark Melin
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The Goldman Sachs re-balanced Sharpe Ratio portfolio continues to outperform through a formula that considers future valuations and avoids the emotion and market chatter.

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Stock selection modification is done by modifying Sharpe Ratio

The Goldman Sachs method to modify to select stocks is done by modifying the traditional Sharpe Ratio, a measure of risk and reward that measures upside and downside volatility to determine a risk reward profile of an investment. Goldman's modification to traditional use of the Sharpe Ratio is not as radical as many have proposed. Instead of providing a different risk weighting to upside deviation than downside deviation, the financial engineers at Goldman consider...

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Mark Melin is an alternative investment practitioner whose specialty is recognizing the impact of beta market environment on a technical trading strategy. A portfolio and industry consultant, wrote or edited three books including High Performance Managed Futures (Wiley 2010) and The Chicago Board of Trade’s Handbook of Futures and Options (McGraw-Hill 2008) and taught a course at Northwestern University's executive education program.