# Trend Following strategy with ETFs in Julia

**URL:** <https://discourse.julialang.org/t/trend-following-strategy-with-etfs-in-julia/90534>\
**Category:** Finance and Economics\
**Created:** [November 20, 2022, 10:55am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/trend-following-strategy-with-etfs-in-julia/90534 "2022-11-20T10:55:38Z")\
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**Author:** ![dm13450](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/eada6e/32.png) [@dm13450](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/dm13450)\
**Post date:** [November 20, 2022, 10:55am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/trend-following-strategy-with-etfs-in-julia/90534/1 "2022-11-20T10:55:38Z")

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I’ve written a post on building out a Trend Following strategy using ETFs:

> **[Trend Following with ETFs](https://dm13450.github.io/2022/11/18/Trend-Following-with-ETFs.html)**
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> Trend following is a rebranded name for momentum trading strategies. It looks at assets where the price has gone up and buying them because it believes the price will continue to rise and likewise for falling prices where it sells. I’ll use this post...

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**Author:** ![baggepinnen](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/baggepinnen/32/693_2.png) [@baggepinnen](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/baggepinnen)\
**Post date:** [November 20, 2022, 12:04pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/trend-following-strategy-with-etfs-in-julia/90534/2 "2022-11-20T12:04:00Z")

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What’s an ETF? It does not appear to mean “empirical transfer function” which I’d normally assume 😊

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**Author:** ![bertschi](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/bertschi/32/33462_2.png) [@bertschi](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/bertschi)\
**Post date:** [November 20, 2022, 1:09pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/trend-following-strategy-with-etfs-in-julia/90534/3 "2022-11-20T13:09:59Z")

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ETF means [exchange traded fund](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exchange-traded_fund) in this context.