Questions tagged [performance]
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MSCI World ESG Leaders index - data is always loading [duplicate]
I'm trying to find the historical data for the "MSCI World ESG Leaders Index" but when I click on performance on the MSCI website it is always loading. I have also tried to download the MSCI ...
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Forward returns measurment?
Is there a common approach to measure how a forward contract is performing?
Here's what I'm thinking, each day you would price your forward with the next formula.
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F_t = S_0 e^{-r_f T}-Ke^{-r T} = (...
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Sharpe Ratio of a Long-Short Portfolio
I have a portfolio High and Low (according to the highest profit). From this I have formed my long short portfolio and calculated my Sharpe Ratio. How to interpret this correctly? Does a positive ...
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Multi-Period Contribution
I've read multiple research papers but can't find a good answer as to why multi-period contributions don't add up to the returns of a portfolio. I understand that arithmetic sums miss the compounding ...
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Statistical testing of out-of-time portfolio performance (measured via a custom metric)
I'm testing (out-of-time) my machine learning (ML) based strategy against a strong benchmark. As a performance metric, I'm using a custom rolling metric $M(t)$ which takes into account the portfolio ...
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best way to calculate the return
Suppose that you want to calculate the single period return. Let p0 be the initial price and p1 be the final price over the ...
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Brinson attribution for arbitrary set of style factors (size, momentum, vol, etc)
I'm looking to do a Brinson performance attribution on a portfolio of stocks where instead of decomposing the returns in terms of sectors we use factors instead. Basically, I want to do what Style ...
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Fast Monte Carlo of Local Volatility Model
I want to compute option prices via a Monte Carlo simulation. The model implemented is a Markov process, following the SDE :
d X_t = alpha * dt + beta^(1/2) * d W_t
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Cross Currency Swap Attribution
Can you please recommend a paper/book that discusses the attribution of the mark to market of a cross currency swap (rates, basis, fx, etc.)?
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Portfolio Performance Attribution Using Carino Smoothing
I'm trying to conduct portfolio performance attribution using Carino smoothing, but it seems that the active returns do not match and I don't know why. Here is the example I use:
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Can alpha be positive if cumulative returns underperform the benchmark?
According to my portfolio analysis program (pyfolio), the alpha of the following strategy is .17 (I am assuming 17%). [Based on pyfolio documentation, alpha here is the "annualized alpha".]
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Regression based performance attribution with dummy variables
I am following some work to do with a regression based performance attribution.
The regression is a cross sectional one. The $y$ vector is the risk free return for say 1,000 companies. The $X$ matrix ...
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Modern Linking Algorithm for Multi Period Performance Attribution
I'm looking for a modern description of the linking algorithms used in industry arithmetic performance attribution across multiple periods.
Since the sum of the active return components in arithmetic ...
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Error distribution algorithms in performance attribution
Are there any known & generally accepted methods of scaling each return in a period such that the total cumulative return equals a more desired amount? For example, 0.5 and 0.3 have a total ...
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How to calculate performance of a private equity investment?
Say an investment fund puts \$1 million into private equity investment in 3 installments (\$500k, \$250k, \$250k).
You're given a data table which shows the date, contributions (\$500k, \$250k, \$...
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How to calculate standard deviation cone around expected returns?
I would like to evaluate the returns of an investment manager who has given me their return and volatility expectations for their fund. I would like to calculate both 1 and 2 standard deviations from ...
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How to calculate interaction effect for my Performance Attribution?
I calculate the selection and allocation effect, i don't get my alpha yet, I think with the interaction effect I'd solve the problem. Can you help me with the selection effect method?
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Composite portfolio performance
I'm trying to calculate the combined performance of two portfolios, but keep getting a nonsensical result. I have a Fixed Income & Equity portfolio and the GIPS quarterly performance number from ...
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Problems with Performance Attribution Analysis
I am using the typical Brinson Model formula, but it doesn´t work, I think that is explained because of the compound effect and rebalancing...
when I look my portfolio's YTD return and multiply by the ...
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How to compare performance of a German stock
How would you compare the performance of a German stock listed in DAX? I heard many use Euro Stoxx 50. But wouldn’t be the obvious choice to use the DAX? Also, would you use DAX INDEX or DAX FUTURES?
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Why can't I take the Value at Risk "VaR" as a a risk objective in PerformanceAnalytics? (it does work for "ES)
I am currently playing around with PortfolioAnalytics package in R and some data and I am aiming to create different portfolios with different VaR. However, I am struggling first of all, add.objective(...
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Indian Securities Sector and Industry performance history data [closed]
I am looking for data of Indian Industries and Sector's performance historical data for each and every date for over the last 10 years period of time. If it is not available, Could I get every month-...
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Multi Period Return Table
For performance presentation a multi period (or multi horizon) table is needed. What I mean is a table showing the trailing month, quarter, YTD, and other sub periods up to since inception.
So I ...
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Contribution to Return - from security to portfolio
I have the Contribution to Return (CTR) of all securities in a portfolio for a number of days. I would like to compute the portfolio and securities total return over this period.
The total return of ...
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Research on the performance of listed subsidiaries
Some countries (India, Pakistan, Nigeria, among others) seem to force multinational corporations that do business there to list the local operation on the national stock exchange and to let public ...
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Ways to calculate daily returns
A complete rookie here.
I'm currently reading Ernie Chan's 'Algorithmic Trading' and trying to recreate his results with quantstrat in R. Everything seems to be fine except for portfolio return ...
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Ex-Ante Tracking Error : active strategies and the size of the covariance matrix
The most common formula for the ex-ante tracking error is $\sqrt{w^{T}Cw}$, where $w$ is a vector of excess weights relative to the benchmark and $C$ a forecast of covariance matrix. The sums of both $...
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Difference between Sharpe Ratio and Information Ratio when measuring Hedge Fund performance?
Here is an unpublished excerpt from Professor X:
"Since Sharpe ratio uses standard deviation as a measure of risk, it assumes normal distribution of the underlying returns and it would therefore not ...
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Out-of-sample performance
I got a problem when calculating the out-of-sample performance of my model.
I have the following settings:
I have daily data.
I use a rolling window of 1 week.
I use the previous six months of data ...
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Sharpe ratio: discrete or continuous returns?
The Sharpe ratio is known as
$$SR=\frac{\mu-r_f}{\sigma}$$
Are these values calculated from discrete or continuously compounded returns?
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Performance attribution for personal portfolio - weight attribution
i am building a platform for portfolio analytics, part of which is a performance attribution module. Given that most individual portfolio's can never have the same number of stocks as say, a mutual ...
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How to calculate Sharpe Ratio if there are gaps in returns?
I see a lot of examples, like "We hold long position during whole year, then we calculate daily sharpe ratio and multiply it by SQRT(252) to get the annual one". This example makes sense for me.
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Forex P&l Attribution on Physical Forward position
Please validate my unrealized Fx P&L calculation on the commodity forward contract e.g. consider i have bought 1 MT of wheat at 300 EURO my financial currency for company is USD. I am using below ...
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How to compute daily compounded backtest returns closer to real-world results?
I often run quick tests of trading strategies in my analytics suites by:
multiplying a vector of signal (lagged, {-1,0,1}) with a time series
of daily percentage returns
doing a cumulative product of ...
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Calculate Average Price, Cost, (Un)Realized P&L of a position based on executed trades
We have built an algorithmic trading software and need to calculate the following parameters for each position in our portfolio.
Average Price
Cost
Realized Profit & Loss
Unrealized Profit & ...
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Industry convention to track trading performance against market indices?
I come from a programming background and not am no quant by career so this is probably a newbie question for you guys. I have written some code to pull daily closing values for market indices (DOW/...
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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 the ...
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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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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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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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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 ...
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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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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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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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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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