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Mean Reversion: Universal Truth Or Human Delusion?
The key to understanding how and where mean reversion applies, lies in the correct understanding of the ‘mean’ itself.
07 Jul 2020, 01:07 PM IST
The concept of ‘mean reversion’, and the risk of applying it to investing without understanding it adequately!The basic definition of ‘mean reversion’ is that asset prices and historical returns will revert to the long-run mean or average level of the entire dataset. The concept hopes to identify abnormal activity that will revert to a normal pattern in the future. In other words, ‘mean reversion’ suggests that cumulative observation...
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