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Quantocracy’s Daily Wrap for 09/04/2019

This is a summary of links featured on Quantocracy on Wednesday, 09/04/2019. To see our most recent links, visit the Quant Mashup. Read on readers!

  • DIY Ray Dalio ETF: How to build your own Hedge Fund strategy with risk parity portfolios [Open Quants]

    Earlier this month, Bloomberg published a news article about the launch of a new Risk Parity ETF in the US. The RPAR Risk Parity ETF plans to allocate across asset classes based on risk. The fund would be the first in the U.S. to follow this quantitative approach, allotting more money to securities with lower volatility according to Bloomberg. [The RPAR Risk Parity ETF is] kind of like Bridgewater
  • Understanding Variance Explained in PCA [Eran Raviv]

    Principal component analysis (PCA) is one of the earliest multivariate techniques. Yet not only it survived but it is arguably the most common way of reducing the dimension of multivariate data, with countless applications in almost all sciences. Mathematically, PCA is performed via linear algebra functions called eigen decomposition or singular value decomposition. By now almost nobody cares how
  • How a College Student Built a Slackbot to Execute Trades In a Day, Part 1 [Alpaca]

    Chinese tariffs. Tesla to 420. Trump tweets. With so much unpredictability in the markets these days, one short look away from the market could take a toll on your portfolio. Unfortunately, the market does not wait for people to get off work to become volatile. In fact, much of the volatility can happen during the workday, while people are busy in meetings or trying to get work done. Luckily for

Quantocracy’s Daily Wrap for 09/03/2019

This is a summary of links featured on Quantocracy on Tuesday, 09/03/2019. To see our most recent links, visit the Quant Mashup. Read on readers!

  • Sector Momentum [Flirting with Models]

    We explore top N sector rotation strategies based upon momentum signals. We find that too much concentration (i.e. N is too small) leads to poor performance, whereas performance does not appear to materially degrade for larger N. We find that short- to long-term signals all appear to generate higher total returns than the S&P 500 and there may be room to benefit from diversification by
  • Crisis proof your portfolio: part 2/2 [Alpha Architect]

    This is part 2 (part one is here) of an excellent article that examines the feasibility and effectiveness of protecting equity portfolios using traditional passive means and more contemporary active strategies. It is jam-packed with information and analysis that is best consumed in two parts; however, a good summary of the article by Larry Swedroe can be found here. The focus in part 1 is the
  • A Quant’s Approach to Drawdown: The Cold Blood Index [Robot Wealth]

    In part 1 of this series, we talked about how a market-savvy systematic trader would approach a period of drawdown in a trading strategy. Specifically, theyd: do the best job possible of designing and building their trading strategy to be robust to a range of future market conditions chill out and let the strategy do its thing, understanding that drawdowns are business-as-usual go and look for
  • Python & Data Science Tutorial Analyzing a Random Dataset [Quantoisseur]

  • An Updated Look At SPX Performance After Labor Day [Quantifiable Edges]

    A couple of years ago on the blog I showed a study suggesting that Labor Day week performance has been somewhat dependent on whether the market has rallied over the 20 trading days leading up to it. I decided to update that study today. Below is a look at post-Labor Day performance when the previous 20 days have seen gains versus losses. First lets look at rises into the holiday (unlike now).
  • Improving the Odds of Value: II [Factor Research]

    Value investors earn a premium for holding undesirable stocks The yield curve may identify periods where the premium is more attractive Since 1971, the performance of the Value factor was negative when the yield curve was flattening INTRODUCTION Imagine a portfolio of companies that are plagued by declining sales, negative earnings, too much leverage, rating downgrades, CEOs that prefer golf over

Quantocracy’s Daily Wrap for 09/01/2019

This is a summary of links featured on Quantocracy on Sunday, 09/01/2019. To see our most recent links, visit the Quant Mashup. Read on readers!

  • Tactical Asset Allocation in August [Allocate Smartly]

    This is a summary of the recent performance of a wide range of excellent Tactical Asset Allocation (TAA) strategies, net of transaction costs. These strategies are sourced from books, academic papers, and other publications. While we dont (yet) include every published TAA model, these strategies are broadly representative of the TAA space. Learn more about what we do or let AllocateSmartly help

Quantocracy’s Daily Wrap for 08/30/2019

This is a summary of links featured on Quantocracy on Friday, 08/30/2019. To see our most recent links, visit the Quant Mashup. Read on readers!

  • Is Pairs Trading Still Viable? [Quant Rocket]

    Classic pairs trading strategies have suffered deteriorating returns over time. Can a research pipeline that facilitates the identification and selection of ETF pairs make pairs trading viable again? This post investigates such a pipeline. The problem: pairs wander away Source: Ernie Chan, Algorithmic Trading: Winning Strategies and Their Rationale, Wiley, May 28, 2013, chapter 4. Pairs trading is

Quantocracy’s Daily Wrap for 08/29/2019

This is a summary of links featured on Quantocracy on Thursday, 08/29/2019. To see our most recent links, visit the Quant Mashup. Read on readers!

  • Free Financial, Fundamental and Macroeconomic Data with R examples [Open Quants]

    In this Article, we will show how to obtain free financial data including: End-of-day and real-time pricing; Company financials; Macroeconomic data. Data sources utilized in this Article include: U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC); Quandl; IEX; Alpha Vantage. We also provide code to reproduce results as part of our Open Source Live Book Initiative.
  • Can We Explain the Low Volatility Anomaly? [Alpha Architect]

    One of the big problems for the first formal asset pricing model developed by financial economists, the CAPM, was that it predicts a positive relation between risk and return. But empirical studies have found the actual relation to be flat, or even negative. Over the last 50 years, the most defensive (low-volatility, low-risk) stocks have delivered both higher returns and higher

Quantocracy’s Daily Wrap for 08/28/2019

This is a summary of links featured on Quantocracy on Wednesday, 08/28/2019. To see our most recent links, visit the Quant Mashup. Read on readers!

  • Monthly Rotation Closeness to $10 [Alvarez Quant Trading]

    It is funny that my last post, Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu & Trading Shiny New Toy, because this post is definitely chasing a shiny toy. I was reading the August 2019 Technical Analysis of Stocks & Commodities issue and came across the article Swing Trading 10-Point Breakouts. The basic concept was looking for stocks basing under a multiple of $10, then buy when it closes about that
  • Factor Investing On Country Level [Factor Research]

    Investors can harvest returns from common equity factors on country level Returns are consistent when combined into a multi-factor portfolio Performance of some factors is comparable to those on single stock level, indicating common drivers INTRODUCTION Factor investing strategies like Value are relatively easy to explain, but complex in implementation. Creating long-short factor portfolios

Quantocracy’s Daily Wrap for 08/27/2019

This is a summary of links featured on Quantocracy on Tuesday, 08/27/2019. To see our most recent links, visit the Quant Mashup. Read on readers!

  • Tech Dividends [Reproducible Finance]

    In a previous post, we explored the dividend history of stocks included in the SP500. Today well extend that anlaysis to cover the Nasdaq because, well, because in the previous post I said I would do that. Well also explore a different source for dividend data, do some string cleaning and check out ways to customize a tooltip in plotly. Bonus feature: well get into some animation too. We
  • The Single Futures Roll [Hudson and Thames]

    Building trading strategies on futures contracts has the unique problem that a given contract has expiration date, example the 3 month contract on wheat. In order to build a continuous time series across the different contracts we stitch them together, most commonly using an auto roll or some other function. However a problem occurs when we do this, which is: come the expiry date, there is usually

Quantocracy’s Daily Wrap for 08/26/2019

This is a summary of links featured on Quantocracy on Monday, 08/26/2019. To see our most recent links, visit the Quant Mashup. Read on readers!

  • Es-CAPE Velocity: Value-Driven Sector Rotation [Flirting with Models]

    Systematic value strategies have struggled in the post-2008 environment, so one that has performed well catches our eye. The Barclays Shiller CAPE sector rotation strategy a value-based sector rotation strategy has out-performed the S&P 500 by 267 basis points annualized since it launched in 2012. The strategy applies a unique Relative CAPE metric to account for structural differences
  • Social Media, News Based Sentiment, and Market Timing [Alpha Architect]

    With a growing availability of filtered (news) and unfiltered (social media) information, the author investigates the following question: Do news or social media contain any information that is of relevance for investment decision making and if so are the two sources are complementary or overlapping? What are the Academic Insights? By using an extensive sample of directly comparable news- and

Quantocracy’s Daily Wrap for 08/25/2019

This is a summary of links featured on Quantocracy on Sunday, 08/25/2019. To see our most recent links, visit the Quant Mashup. Read on readers!

  • Analyzing global fixed income markets with tensors [SR SV]

    Roughly speaking, a tensor is an array (generalization of a matrix) of numbers that transform according to certain rules when the arrays coordinates change. Fixed-income returns across countries can be seen as residing on tensor-like multidimensional data structures. Hence a tensor-valued approach allows identifying common factors behind international yield curves in the same way as principal
  • Wide Range N-Day Pattern | Trading Strategy (Setup) [Oxford Capital]

    Developer: Toby Crabel (Narrow Range N-Day Pattern; Note: Wide Range N-Day Pattern applies a reverse logic of Narrow Range N-Day Pattern). Source: Crabel, T. (1990). Day Trading with Short Term Price Patterns and Opening Range Breakout. Greenville: Traders Press, Inc. Concept: Volatility cycles (expansion-contraction) with different look back periods. Research Goal: Performance verification of

Quantocracy’s Daily Wrap for 08/22/2019

This is a summary of links featured on Quantocracy on Thursday, 08/22/2019. To see our most recent links, visit the Quant Mashup. Read on readers!