Trend Following, from Commenter Wahrheit
With respect to recent industry performance, the Newedge Trend Indicator, published daily by the Newedge unit of SocGen, is an earnest attempt to simulate broad-based trendfollowing including transaction costs. Its performance the past 10 years, per data on the Newedge website:
2005 -1.6 %
2006 6.1 %
2007 -1.5 %
2008 31.4 %
2009 2.9 %
2010 7.8 %
2011 1.5 %
2012 -16.0 %
2013 -17.7 %
2014 -4.5 % (through 26 Jun)