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How to deal with different amount of td's in computing Sharpe Ratio
In calculating the Sharpe Ratio, should I take into account the days were I have 0 return due to non-trading day? Another user posted a similar question but this was related to trading days with no ...
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How to calculate equally weighted market portfolio
There's two studies that test the same thing in different markets (i.e. they apply the identical methodology). They state:
1) "$R_{mt}$ is the equally weighted average stock return in the dual-listed ...
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Methods for distributing cash into allocation
Are there any methods/techniques that cover distributing cash into a specific percent of a portfolio asset class while gaining the best average price?
As a simple example, a portfolio starts with ...
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What is a reasonable upper bound on the performance of a daily trading strategy?
I am backtesting an equity trading strategy which trades only once per day. Is there a general rule of thumb for the reasonable upper bound on the rate of return of such a strategy? For example, a ...
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How to calculate compound returns of leveraged ETFs?
Forewarning: this is a complete newbie question :-)
I am starting to learn about ETFs by trying to do the numbers. When learning about the compounding effect in leveraged ETFs, I wanted to simulate ...
