Monthly Archives: December 2012
US market portrait 2012 week 53
US large cap market returns. Fine print The data are from Yahoo Almost all of the S&P 500 stocks are used (as implied by Wikipedia in 2012 April) The initial post was “Replacing market indices” The R code is in marketportrait_funs.R
Miles of iles
An explanation of quartiles, quintiles deciles, and boxplots. Previously “Again with variability of long-short decile tests” and its predecessor discusses using deciles but doesn’t say what they are. The *iles These are concepts that have to do with approximately equally sized groups created from sorted data. There are 4 groups with quartiles, 5 with quintiles … Continue reading
Posted in Quant finance, R language
Tagged boxplot, decile, interquartile range, IQR, quartile, quintile
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US market portrait 2012 week 52
US large cap market returns. Fine print The data are from Yahoo Almost all of the S&P 500 stocks are used (as implied by Wikipedia in 2012 April) The initial post was “Replacing market indices” The R code is in marketportrait_funs.R
A look at historical Value at Risk
Historical Value at Risk (VaR) is very popular because it is easy and intuitive: use the empirical distribution of some specific number of past returns for the portfolio. Previously “The estimation of Value at Risk and Expected Shortfall” included an R function to estimate historical VaR. Generating portfolios A useful tool to explore risk models … Continue reading
US market portrait 2012 week 51
US large cap market returns. Fine print The data are from Yahoo Almost all of the S&P 500 stocks are used (as implied by Wikipedia in 2012 April) The initial post was “Replacing market indices” The R code is in marketportrait_funs.R
garch and the Algorithmic Trading Conference
The Imperial College Algorithmic Trading Conference was Saturday. Talks Massoud Mussavian Massoud gave a great talk on “Algo Evolution”. It started with a historical review of how trading used to be done “by hand”. It culminated in a phylogenetic tree of trading algorithms. There was an herbivore branch and a carnivore branch. Robert Macrae Robert … Continue reading
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Tagged Algorithmic Trading Conference, garch, volatility clustering
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US market portrait 2012 week 50
US large cap market returns. Fine print The data are from Yahoo Almost all of the S&P 500 stocks are used (as implied by Wikipedia in 2012 April) The initial post was “Replacing market indices” The R code is in marketportrait_funs.R
Again with variability of long-short decile tests
A simpler approach to producing the variability. Previously The post “Variability in long-short decile strategy tests” proposed a way of assessing the variability of strategy tests in which a long-short portfolio is created by equally weighting the top and bottom deciles. Improved idea Joe Mezrich suggests maintaining equal weights but bootstrapping the assets within the … Continue reading
Variability in long-short decile strategy tests
How to capture return variability when testing strategies with long-short deciles. Traditional practice Question: Does variable X have predictive power for our universe of assets? A common scheme of quants to answer the question is to form a series of portfolios over time. The portfolio at each time point: is long the equal weighting of … Continue reading
