Using AutoCorrelation to Find Trading Signals

How to Use AutoCorrelation to Trade the Markets

Sofien Kaabar, CFA
5 min readFeb 15, 2023

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Autocorrelation is the variable’s linear correlation with its own lagged values. Insights may be gotten from autocorrelation that help understand the market’s properties. For example, persistent positive autocorrelation generally happens in trending markets while negative autocorrelation generally happens in ranging markets.

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The Intuition of the Trading Signals

Correlation is the degree of linear association between two variables. It is a number bounded between -1.00 and 1.00 with the following interpretations:

  • A value of 1.00 represents a perfectly positive correlation which means that the two variables move in the same…

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