April 2019
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Finance Research Letters
Employing a nonlinear multi-criteria optimization approach, sentiment-based disagreement is incorporated into portfolio optimization as additional risk factor. A multi-criteria trading strategy outperforms several benchmarks regarding various performance measures. Applying the strategy over a long time period including downturns and upswings, disagreement proves itself especially valuable in bear markets as it is an indicator for future volatility.