Questions tagged [sharpe-ratio]
Excess return per unit of deviation in return.
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Performance metric that integrates market volatility?
Is there a performance metric like Sharpe that takes into account the volatility of the current market instead of only the volatility of the fund? I believe investors may have different degrees of ...
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calculating sharpe and sortino ratio given monthly returns [closed]
suppose I have (fictitious) monthly returns:
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how to use SOFR as risk free rate in portfolio construction
Good afternoof to everyone.
I would like to create a portfolio following a multifactorial approach (I have been writing my master's thesis). As I would like to calculate a series of ratios (e.g. ...
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Sharpe Ratio Graphed Over Time
I looked and could not find a suitable answer to my question already, so:
What is the best way to calculate the Sharpe Ratio over time, given I have about a decade's worth of 1-minute candlesticks?
I ...
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Should the sharpe ratio always change with number of assets?
I am trying to understand if the Sharpe ratio of a portfolio change if we increase or decrease the number of assets in the portfolio. It would be helpful if you could provide an explanation with ...
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What is stopping me from using high leverage on high Sharpe strategies?
Say the example market return is 12% for the year, I managed to develop a 3-4 Sharpe strategy that makes 6% a year. If I can borrow twice the size of my original fund at 0% interest, I can make more ...
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Measuring Information Coefficient and Sharpe Ratio
I have been looking through / using Quantopians' Alphalens library to measure/create new factors, and I had some questions in evaluating the credibility of the factor.
This is what I have:
I have ...
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Can I use the Sharpe Ratio as an objective function in algorithmic trading?
I’m experimenting with custom loss functions for different trading rules and have come across a few articles citing success in directly using the (negative) Sharpe Ratio as a loss function, ...
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Industry or academic standard frequency to report the return, standard deviation, and Sharpe ratio?
Everyone (funds, banks, academics, financial information sites etc.) reports the annualized return, standard deviation, and Sharpe ratio. Yet we never get to know what the basis of their computation ...
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Is scaled Sharpe ratio a t-statistic?
I was just reading Quantitative Trading: How to Build Your Own Algorithmic Trading Business and it suggests annualizing Sharpe ratio in order to compare performance of strategies:
$$\text{Annualized ...
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Sortino ratio lower than sharpe ratio?
Under what circumstances is a sortino ratio lower than a sharpe ratio? What does it mean about the distribution?
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Sharpe from signal to daily return correlation
A few years back in an interview I remember being asked to derive the Sharpe ratio from the correlation between a pre-open daily signal and the open-close returns. I think you had to make some ...
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Should the strategy shut down period be considered when calculating Sharpe?
When computing the Sharpe for a strategy, should the shut down period be considered?
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question regarding sharpe ratio calculation
Hi All: I looked in the search icon for questions related to Sharpe Ratio but I couldn't find what I was looking for. My question is about how to calculate it. I will explain the scenario and then ask ...
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Computing Sharpe ratio correctly when adding more funds
I've a very basic question:
Assume, as time $t_0$, I started a algorithmic trading strategy with initial capital $X_0$. My strategy on subsequent $N$ time frames generated returns $r(t_1), r(t_2),..r(...
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Approximating Sharpe and Sortino ratios from Exponential moving averages
So I've been studying the paper "Learning To Trade via Direct Reinforcement" Moody and Saffell (2001) which describes in detail how to use exponential moving estimates (EMAs) of returns at ...
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Portfolio vs individual security Sharpe and Sortino ratios
For an individual security calculating it's Sharpe and Sortino ratios is straightforward.
What I'm curious about is the following:
Let's say I have a portfolio of several securities, which is a ...
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Beta Adjusted Return
I'm a bit confused about the definition of the 'Beta Adjusted Return', say I have benchmark whose return is $r$ and a stock whose return is $R$, the beta adjusted return is defined as
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Question on the details of certain parameters in Sharpe Ratio [closed]
I'm puzzled about certain parameters in calculating the annualized Sharpe Ratio using monthly return data.
Average excess return: Does this mean the arithmetic average of all the monthly excess ...
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Portfolio rebalance - How many data back do I need to perform sharpe ratio optimization
if I do a periodical rebalance of my portfolio based on sharpe ratio optimization, how many historical data should I take in account for optimizing with respect to the frequency of rebalancing?
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Is this OK for simplifying Sharpe Ratio?
I've tried using Average(return)/StdDev(return) and it seems to work. I just want to see a measure of equity curve smoothness. Are there any downsides to this?
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Questions about Sharpe Ratio calculation
Let's say I have daily returns. Don't they depend on the risk per trade I am using? Obviously, if I'm risking 2% of equity per trade returns will be drastically different than when I'm using 10%? So ...
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annualized sharpe from single day returns with varying cash outlay
Lets say I have a series of daily returns with varying cash outlay. I am trying to take these daily returns to compute the sharpe ratio for the year. my question is about treatment of the weightings.
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how to relate risk aversion and sharpe ratio in optimisation
I am trying to optimise the following:
U(w)=w′μ−λ/2w′Σw
which is the typical risk aversion problem.
I would like to set lambda in order to have the max sharpe but I cannot find in literature what is ...
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Calculating Sharpe Ratio on a per trade basis?
I have a strategy that I've been playing with and trying to backtest. It's of questionable practicality at the moment, but the idea is to pick one stock from the Dow 30 companies to trade right near ...
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How to test signifcance of a sharpe ratio
Let say you have measured a Sharpe Ratio of $S^*$. What is the simplest way (ie no fancy distributions) to do a hypothesis that this is different from $0$?
So $H_0: \text{ The sharpe ratio is equal ...
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Which metric is most predictive: Mean, Sharpe, Calmar, …?
Suppose you have created a new trading algorithm:
by varying the params of the algorithm, you get a large number of similar trading strategies (e.g. slightly different trigger thresholds, stop loss ...
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Annualised Sharpe Ratio of a 24/7 Round-The-Clock High Frequency Trading Strategy
Consider a high frequency trading strategy that trades Bitcoin-USD round the clock 365 days of the year at 5-minute intervals. How would one calculate the annualised Sharpe ratio of such a trading ...
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Maximum Sharpe ratio portfolio - derivation
I want mathematical derivation of how to construct maximum Sharpe ratio portfolio. Any resources with mathematical derivation (if its implemented in Python, that will be great) will be useful
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portfolio return, sharpe ratio and value at risk
Can you please help me to confirm if my calculations are correct or need improvement, or (too simplistic...) :
- portfolio return,
- portfolio standard deviation,
- portfolio sharpe ratio
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calculating sharpe-ratio and annualized returns
Im trying to get the sharpe ratio to be calculated daily but I can only calculate it annually, this is also happening for my annualized returns, can somebody help me please?
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Which riskfree rate to use for Maximum Sharpe Ratio Portfolio?
I am conducting out of sample backtests of the MV framework. But how exactly do I derive the Maximum Sharpe Ratio portfolio for this? The standard forumula of the Sharpe Ratio is given by:
$$\frac{(...
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Annualizing the Sharpe Ratio
I am doing some calculations and I am working currently with the weekly Sharpe Ratio. Can I annualize the Sharpe ratio by multiplying with the square root of 52?
Greetings!
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How to calculate out-of-sample and in-sample Sharpe Ratio?
I am conducting a backtest on different investment strategies and would like to calculate
(i) the out-of-sample Sharpe ratio and
(ii) the in-sample Sharpe ratio according to "Optimal Versus Naive ...
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ESG Style Analysis
Hi all and thank you in advance.
Do you think that implementing a style analysis on ESG equity portfolios is feasible?
When I mean style analysis I refer to the seminal paper of Sharpe (1992) but I ...
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Papers with Sharpe Ratio above 3 [closed]
Could you provide examples of academic papers proposing strategies with Sharpe Ratio above 3? Above 4?
Any type of strategy and any mix of asset classes would do. However, a particular interest is ...
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Sharpe ratio of annualized log returns
I have returns from the last 12 months on a portfolio, and i have risk free rate for the latest year, on daily basis.
I have annualized the risk free rate, and i am using log returns for the period.
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Robust Sharpe ratio
The denominator of the Sharpe ratio is sample portfolio volatility, $\sigma_p$, which is the square root of portfolio variance based on the quadratic squared loss, L2. Alternatives for the denominator ...
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How to derive the CAPM from maximizing the Sharpe ratio?
I know how to derive at the CAPM from a microeconomic foundation. In a recent University course I stumbled over a slide that derived the CAPM solely from the Sharpe ratio:
I cant come up with that ...
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Forget Kelly, forget fractional sizing. Where is the general theory?
I am struggling to find a general theory of position sizing. Help!
The literature is all about fractional position sizing, but that's just one of the innumerable strategies. What about all the other ...
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Sharpe ratio of strategy exploiting correlations that vary by time interval
The Epps effect "is the phenomenon that the empirical correlation between the returns of two different stocks decreases with the length of the interval for which the price changes are measured" (...
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How to implement Modified Sharpe Ratio optimization using PortfolioAnalytics R package?
I am looking at how to implement modified Sharpe ratio optimization using R package PortfolioAnalytics. Modified sharpe ratio defined as
MSR = r/(sd^f)
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Sharpe Ratio Formula
In calculating Sharpe Ratio, I have come across a variety of equations that are similar but differ in wordings. I am curious to know which one is used within best practice. Here are all the different ...
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T-bond of what maturity to use as risk-free rate when calculating excess return?
I am comparing different asset classes in order to estimate the expected return and the risk of a portfolio. I have historical data (adjusted close price) for my asset classes for the last 5 years ...
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step by step calculation of the sharpe ratio
I am trying to calculate the Sharpe ratio. Suppose I have:
$$ x_t = \alpha + \beta y_{t} + \epsilon_{t}$$
$$E[x_{t}] = \alpha + \beta E[y_{t}]$$
$$var[x_{t}] = \beta^2var[y_t] + \sigma^2$$
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Is there any way to compare portfolios created using sharpe optimization model?
I created different portfolios using sharpe portfolio optimization model and I want to know is there any way to compare those portfolios before actually investing in them?
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Annualizing Sharpe Ratio using small time frames
I have coded a strategy that works 5m time frame. I know you multiply it by 252 but i am using 5m or sometimes 1h time frame. Which number do i have to chose to multiply? There are 72576 five minutes ...
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Sharpe Ratio and Sortino Question: Standard practice
For Sharpe ratio calculation, I have seen several variations for the denominator; either the standard deviation of portfolio returns or standard deviation of excess returns. Is there an accepted ...
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Relation between Sharpe ratio and amount of capital
In the book Quantitative trading by Ernest P. Chan, in one of the example we compute the Sharpe ratio of long-short strategy and one step perplexes me:
In column L, compute the net returns for ...
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Alpha vs. Sharpe Ratio
What are the main differences between a strategy's Sharpe ratio, and its alpha based on the Fame French factors? Does it make sense to evaluate them both in a thesis?
