Quant Mashup - No Noise Only Alpha The Art of War: How to beat a strategist in the futures market? [No Noise Only Alpha]Strategy: core directional choices that best best moves you into your desired future Tactics: specific actions that will best implement your strategies Without a core strategy to anchor all tactics suggestions to see which best FIT (feasible, impactful, timely) the strategy, one could randomly(...) Capital Asset Pricing Model (CAPM) [No Noise Only Alpha]While I am a believer of APT more than of CAPM, I will share some of my findings on CAPM. CAPM has many flaws: there are capital taxes, high transaction cost on illiquid securities with few floating shares, licensed leveraged funds do influence prices with outsized positions, different analyst has a(...) Prototyping and backtesting trading strategies naively in python [No Noise Only Alpha]The fastest way to test the profitability of a trading model generating signals is to do a simple backtest (which means no hindsight biases i.e at least 1 period of timeframe lag from signal even if you timeframe is in milliseconds) using historical time series. actual returns = absolute return (no(...)