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Quantocracy’s Daily Wrap for 10/17/2016

This is a summary of links featured on Quantocracy on Monday, 10/17/2016. To see our most recent links, visit the Quant Mashup. Read on readers!

  • Capital Efficiency in Multi-factor Portfolios [Flirting with Models]

    The debate for the best way to build a multi-factor portfolio mixed or integrated rages on. Last week we explored whether the argument held that integrated portfolios are more capital efficient than mixed portfolios in realized return data for several multi-factor ETFs. This week we explore whether integrated portfolios are more capital efficient than mixed portfolios in theory. We find
  • Book Review of Quantitative Momentum [Dual Momentum]

    I have been looking forward to Wes Gray and Jack Vogel's new book, Quantitative Momentum. It is the only book besides my own Dual Momentum that relies on academic research to develop systematic momentum strategies. My book uses a macro approach of applying momentum to indices and asset classes. Wes and Jack (W&J) take a more common approach and apply momentum to individual stocks. W&J
  • Algorithmic Trading in Indian Markets using Python [Quant Insti]

    Algorithmic Trading in Indian Markets using Python We have told you why Python is one of the preferred languages to do algo trading in this article. We have also told you how algorithmic trading in India. Since we are gearing up for our webinar on Trading in Indian Markets using Python (Not registered yet? Click here to register your seat), we ought to give you a prelude to the trading platform
  • Monthly Rebalancing of ETFs with Fixed Initial Weights in QSTrader [Quant Start]

    Many institutional global asset managers are constrained by the need to invest in long-only strategies with zero or minimal leverage. This means that their strategies are often highly correlated to "the market" (usually the S&P500 index). While it is difficult to minimise this correlation without applying a short market hedge, it can be reduced by investing in non-equities based
  • October Opex Week Has Historically Been Bullish [Quantifiable Edges]

    From a seasonal standpoint option expiration week is often a pretty good week for the market. October is one of those months where it has been especially good over the years. The study below examines performance during October op-ex week. 2016-10-17 image1 I decided to exclude 2008 because action that week was such an incredible outlier that it greatly skewed all the stats. (The week started with

Quantocracy’s Daily Wrap for 10/16/2016

This is a summary of links featured on Quantocracy on Sunday, 10/16/2016. To see our most recent links, visit the Quant Mashup. Read on readers!

  • Podcast: Strategy Optimization with Robert Pardo [Better System Trader]

    Why is it that some traders can create trading strategies that perform well in real-time trading while other strategies fall apart? How do some traders keep their trading strategies fresh and adaptive to market conditions while other strategies just stop working altogether? Robert Pardo, president of Pardo Capital, author of the book The Evaluation and Optimization of Trading Strategies and

Quantocracy’s Daily Wrap for 10/15/2016

This is a summary of links featured on Quantocracy on Saturday, 10/15/2016. To see our most recent links, visit the Quant Mashup. Read on readers!

  • How to Measure Momentum? [Alpha Architect]

    Since weve released our new book, Quantitative Momentum, weve received a handful of basic questions related to momentumspecifically as it relates to stock selection. At this point, the so-called momentum effect has occupied academic researchers for several decades. Researchers have found that, on average, stocks with strong recent performance relative to other stocks in the cross
  • Client -III- [Algorythmn Trader]

    In my previous post, I started the implementation of WPF program entry point and the View ViewModel interaction basics. The goal of this Client chapter is to get a client application which connects to the basic server application I covered earlier. This post continues the basic infrastructure where the Views and ViewModels become integrated. So lets start with some auxiliary entities

Quantocracy’s Daily Wrap for 10/14/2016

This is a summary of links featured on Quantocracy on Friday, 10/14/2016. To see our most recent links, visit the Quant Mashup. Read on readers!

  • So You Want to Build Your Own Algo Trading System? [Robot Wealth]

    Unlike any other business, algorithmic trading has the advantage of being independent of marketing, sales, customers and all those things that need the pretty people to make it run. Also, you get almost instant feedback on how good you are in your business. For anyone who is numerically inclined (and more often than not falls into a particular demographic in terms of their social
  • Zero-Crossing Variant of Pairs Trading Strategy [Quantpedia]

    Pairs trading is a venerable trading strategy. There is agreement that it worked fine in the far past. But it is less clear if it still profitable today. In this working paper the universe of eligible pairs is defined by the holdings of a given ETF. It is shown that the stocks must be from ETFs which select high-quality, low-volatility stocks. The usual closeness measure presented in the

Quantocracy’s Daily Wrap for 10/13/2016

This is a summary of links featured on Quantocracy on Thursday, 10/13/2016. To see our most recent links, visit the Quant Mashup. Read on readers!

  • Reverse Engineering AQR’s Risk Parity Strategy [Signal Plot]

    Im going to start this post by saying that it makes no sense for anyone to pay management fees to get a return stream that is highly correlated to any existing asset class. Unfortunately, many actively managed funds fall in this category. Theres two reasons for this. One, you can replicate this return stream by just investing in that asset class yourself, likely through low-cost ETFs. Two,
  • What Is The Best “Risk Off” Asset for Trend Followers? [Alpha Architect]

    So youre a trend-follower. Great. But here is a question: What do you invest in when your rules suggest risk off? Many investors suggest low duration cash or t-bills. Seems reasonable. But is it optimal? Perhaps we should invest in longer duration risk-off assets like 10-yr bonds? We investigate these questions and come to the conclusion that keeping it simple is probably the best
  • The illusion of choice in ETF’s [Factor Investor]

    A search for all equity ETF's available to U.S. investors in Bloomberg leads to a list of 969 candidates, a surprisingly large number of options for a relatively new investment vehicle. Given that most focus on large capitalization stocks here in the U.S. (not all, but most), this means that there has to be overlap in the underlying stock holdings…in some cases a lot of overlap. The
  • A Review of @AlphaArchitect Quantitative Momentum book [QuantStrat TradeR]

    This post will be an in-depth review of Alpha Architects Quantitative Momentum book. Overall, in my opinion, the book is terrific for those that are practitioners in fund management in the individual equity space, and still contains ideas worth thinking about outside of that space. However, the system detailed in the book benefits from nested ranking (rank along axis X, take the top decile,

Quantocracy’s Daily Wrap for 10/12/2016

This is a summary of links featured on Quantocracy on Wednesday, 10/12/2016. To see our most recent links, visit the Quant Mashup. Read on readers!

  • Is Equal Weighting Beneficial For Asset Allocation? Part II [Capital Spectator]

    Yesterdays post on equal weighting for asset allocation motivated a reader to point out that equal weightings tendency to outperform in equity portfolios is due to frequent rebalancing events. A passively managed market-cap-weighted portfolio, by contrast, is allowed to drift, with weights evolving based on Mr. Markets whims. But unrebalanced benchmarks were missing. Lets correct that

Quantocracy’s Daily Wrap for 10/10/2016

This is a summary of links featured on Quantocracy on Monday, 10/10/2016. To see our most recent links, visit the Quant Mashup. Read on readers!

  • Is That Leverage in My Multi-Factor ETF? [Flirting with Models]

    The debate for the best way to build a multi-factor portfolio mixed or integrated rages on. FTSE Russell published a video supporting their choice of an integrated approach, arguing that by using the same dollar to target multiple factors at once, their portfolio makes more efficient use of capital than a mixed approach. We decompose the returns of several mixed and integrated multi-factor
  • Value Investing Got Crushed During the Internet Bubble – Here’s Why… [Alpha Architect]

    The dot-com bubble of the late 90s was a wild time in the stock market. Internet stocks were trading through the roof, tech IPOs were a practically daily experience, and people quit their jobs to make millions day trading. And why not? Even a day trading chimp could make money in a market that went up every day. The money flowed like water. In January 2000, just before the bubble popped, Superbowl
  • Presenting in Dallas and Austin, Texas [Alvarez Quant Trading]

    I will be in Texas next week giving presentations. Click the links below for more details. I hope to see some readers there. October 17, 2016 Austin Market Technicians Association For more information see https://www.mta.org/event-registration/austin-chapter-meeting-featuring-cesar-alvarez/ October 18, 2016 Dallas Association for Technical Analysis For more information see
  • More Reasons To Diversify Factors [Larry Swedroe]

    Since the publication in 1992 of Eugene Fama and Kenneth Frenchs paper The Cross-Section of Expected Stock Returns, the traditional way to think about diversification has been to view portfolios as a collection of asset classes. However, we now have a nontraditional way to think about diversification. Specifically, we can view portfolios as a collection of diversifying factors. Support

Quantocracy’s Daily Wrap for 10/09/2016

This is a summary of links featured on Quantocracy on Sunday, 10/09/2016. To see our most recent links, visit the Quant Mashup. Read on readers!

  • Diversification Key To Factor Investing [Larry Swedroe]

    As my co-author, Andrew Berkin, and I explain in our forthcoming book, Your Complete Guide to Factor-Based Investing, no matter how strong the evidence regarding the persistence and pervasiveness of an investment factors return premium, theres some chance that the factor will experience long periods of underperformance. You can see the evidence of this in the table below, which shows
  • The Walk-Forward Loop [Quintuitive]

    The previous post described the high level architecture of a walk-forward forecasting for time series data. As a hands-on implementation lets apply a simple QDA classifier on the series discussed previously. First things first, most of the relevant code is available on GitHub. Although in general I try to publish run-able code, this is not a self-contained executable script. There are