Stop losses momentum strategy: From profit maximization to risk control under White's Bootstrap Reality Check

It is new perspective on the momentum effect permitting its analysis from a comprehensive view taking into account the strategy's different design elements and observing how the disposition of investor preferences has changed depending on the criterion. We distinguish two criteria: (1) maximizing the mean return of the investment with control t-statistics and the author's innovation with the Bootstrap p-value, (2) minimizing the risk approximated by the number of drawdowns. This paper conducts the first comprehensive examination of the momentum effect on the Russian stock market.