Quantocracy’s Daily Wrap for 10/29/2019

Interest rates and yield curves are not observable, but need to be estimated from prices of fixed-income securities. Common patterns in prices of fixed-income securities can be expressed in three ways: yield curves, forward rate curves or discount functions. When working with interest rates, we need to know the exact unit of measurement in order to know the correct formula to compute present

Investing is simple, but not easy, as Warren Buffett says. And yes technically the investment process should be as simple as possible. But does it mean that an average investor should not even think about active investment strategies and entirely rely on a passive portfolio? Which strategy is best to follow? And will it work tomorrow? In this interview, my guest, Jack Vogel from Alpha

We are continuing in our short series of articles about calendar / seasonal trading. In our previous work, we have examined various calendar / seasonal equity trading strategies. In this study, we aim to take this composite calendar strategy as a building block and add another block to enhance the resulting performance. This article can be another example, how to work with anomalies that are

The size premium is one of the factors that we have researched and dug into several times on the blog. You can find just a few here, here, and here. This paper though took a fresh look at the size premium and adds a new perspective that we havent previously covered. What are the research questions? Given various approaches to measuring the size of a company, is the total amount of daily

Concept: Large price moves tend to be followed by large price moves, and small price moves tend to be followed by small price moves (Volatility Clustering). Research Question: Can we improve performance of the original volatility clustering model via standard deviation filtering of large price moves? Specification: Table 1. Results: Figure 1-4. Trade Setup: We identify large price moves via