It's time to update our forecasts of the monthly returns of hedge funds, based on our analysis of the Dynamic Trading Risk Factor — the underlying factor we hypothesize drives the returns of all funds engaged in systematic trading activity.

In our last post on this topic, we forecast a July 2010 return of +7 bp. The realized return was +2.53%. Based on our model, we now forecast a total return for August 2010 of +1.27%.