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How to annualize dividends paid at varying intervals?
I am attempting to write a function that will calculate the annualized rate of return for individual dividends made by illiquid investments. These dividends are paid at varying intervals and the ...
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desk's performance
I need your point of view in evaluating the monthly performance of a desk.
I have the daily
credit risk capital requirement (A);
the net banking income or GNP (B).
What is the best measure of ...
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How high of a Sharpe ratio is implausibly high for a low-frequency equity strategy?
I am looking to convince someone that an annualized Sharpe Ratio of 7 is 'extremely high' for a low frequency (daily rebalancing, say) long-short technical strategy on U.S. equities. I was hoping for ...
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What are some computational bottlenecks that quants face? [closed]
What are the current computational (non-network) bottlenecks now in a quant's workflow? What computational tasks would be revolutionary with a 10-100x improvement in performance using general purpose ...
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Efficiently storing real-time intraday data in an application agnostic way
What would be the best approach to handle real-time intraday data storage?
For personal research I've always imported from flat files only into memory (historical EOD), so I don't have much ...
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How to compute performance attribution between daily rebalanced strategies?
I have a daily rebalanced portfolio of several strategies.
After one month, I now want to attribute the performance to the different strategies. There are several ways to do it.
For instance one ...
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How to combine multiple trading algorithms?
Is it possible to combine different algorithms so as to improve trading performance? In particular, I have read that social media sentiment tracking, digital signal processing and neural networks all ...
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What is the average Sharpe ratio of volatility arbitrage funds?
Where can I get data on performance metrics for volatility arbitrage funds? I am trying to compare the Sharpe ratio of my strategy to those of the major players.
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How can an ETF outperform its benchmark index?
Deutsche Bank’s ETF platform, db X-trackers, provides a rather remarkable ETF tracking Euro Stoxx 50 (which is the most widely used regional blue-chip index in Europe).
What makes it remarkable is ...
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How do you correct Max Draw-Down for auto-correlation?
When returns are auto-correlated, calculating a Sharpe ratio := $\frac {mean(x)}{\sqrt{var(x)}}$, (where $x$ are the returns) is complicated, but basically solved (see, e.g. Lo (2005)). Without the ...
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British hedge/mutual funds performance comparison website [closed]
Imagine a British investor with $10-100k in her pocket. She wants to see the previous performance of various British and overseas funds to choose the one to invest. And she wants to filter out the ...
