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Risk-adjusted returns ratio that does not reward high risk for negative returns
Yes, you are correct on both terms - it doesn't make much sense, and there exists a well-cited solution by C. Israelsen: "A refinement to the Sharpe ratio and information ratio." Journal of Asset ...
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What is an accepted method to calculate percent PnL from a short position?
A short position is a liability on your books, as the borrowed asset has to be returned to the owner. The return is then the percentage return of that liability.
Assume that the shorted asset at ...
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average return Vs cumulative return interpretation
Consider these two simple portfolios:
Portfolio 1 returns -10% in month 1 and 10% in month 2. Average arithmetic return is zero, and cumulative return is $(1-10\%)(1+10\%)=0.99$.
Portfolio 2 returns -...
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Sharpe ratio: discrete or continuous returns?
For client reporting purposes, it is customary to use discrete returns. For backtesting, it pretty much make no difference.
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CAPM and Beta: problem with regression (Beta is too low yet statistically significant?)
You are right to be sceptical of the beta of an international portfolio when it is calculated using daily returns. Beta estimates are often low for international portfolios because stock market ...
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Information Coefficient (IC) Formulae Differences
Paraphrasing some quote:
"they are different but same but still different"
In reality the number of correct bets $N_c$ is the number of times the analyst was correct predicting the ...
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What returns to use?
Since you're looking to summarize the performance of a monthly return series in a single number, it is best to compute the annualized return. This is the standard used in the investment management ...
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Sharpe Ratio, risk free rate
No, this is not the same. For example, consider the scenario
$$
\begin{align*}
r_A &= 10\% \quad\quad \sigma_A = 10\% \\
r_B &= 1.5\% \quad\quad \sigma_B = 1\% \\
\end{align*}
$$
If $r_f=1\%$,
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Alternative relative performance measure to Sharpe ratio for non-IID return
I don't know that there is a "standard-solution crystalized in the community," but there are alternatives. The ones that I prefer are Omega, Sortino, and Kappa. All three of these ratios, unlike ...
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Multi-Period Contribution
Thanks for the example. It is exactly like my comment. Look at your weights after the first period. Are they really 80% and 20%?
Lets say you have £100 to invest.
£80 is invested in product A. That ...
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Understanding out-of-sample performance metrics for Realized Volatility
You can compare the losses against each model and determine the "best" model to be the one with the smallest losses. In many cases for larger studies, the results might be ambiguous where ...
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Measuring alpha (Academia vs the Industry)
Both questions are not as straightforward as @Hui (and most academics and practitioners) would immediately think. I would try to put in my two cents to answering your question 1.
Short answer: It ...
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Is there a python library to generate performance metrics from returns of the strategy?
Check out empyrical. This library provides methods for calculating several risk and performance metrics.
pyfolio is also a great tool for visualizing your portfolio's performance over time.
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Annualising Data
It depends on the ratio you are looking at. Most of them are scaled by $\sqrt{12}$, but the Treynor index is a bit different and is scaled by $12$.
Sharpe and Information ratios are both ratios of ...
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Calculate Sharpe ratio for only one return
For a single period return, the squared value of that return approximates variance (i.e., the absolute value approximates the standard deviation).
Standard deviation is defined thus:
$$\sigma_X = \...
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What's the exact definition of alpha?
As @Alex C had pointed out, the CAPM and subsequently Jensen were probably the original motivations of the term $\alpha$.
Bear in mind that $\alpha$ and $\beta$ are conventional notation for ...
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What's the exact definition of alpha?
In Quant Finance we start with the assumption that (until shown otherwise) no one can outperform a simple, passive benchmark. Such a benchmark might be for example the S&P 500 index leveraged up ...
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How likely it is that a strategy profits are explained by luck?
Something along these lines is known as the Cowles Test, suggested by Alfred Cowles in 1933 (Can stock market forecasters forecast? https://cowles.yale.edu/sites/default/files/files/pub/misc/cowles-...
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How likely it is that a strategy profits are explained by luck?
I believe that by "luck" you mean that you want to check if you can attribute the pnl of your strategy to something else than the "alpha" that it's trying to capture.
The standard way of doing this ...
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What is a cumulative return series?
O7-30-2021 : POSTING COMMENT AS ANSWER BASED ON SUGGESTION OF RICHARD HARDY.
Hi: The cumulative return is defined as the return on 1 dollar if it had been invested in whatever asset the returns came ...
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Out of Sample Results Decay Rapidly With Prediction Window or Embargo
This is a complex question. Let me reformulate its main components to try to give a generic answer:
if a relationship is non-stationary and I capture it via a model, I expect the explanatory power of ...
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Confidence in Sharpe ratio given performance
I was wondering the same thing. I found your question, then I found this, so I came back to share the link:
https://www.twosigma.com/articles/sharpe-ratio-estimation-confidence-intervals-and-...
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Is there an encyclopedia of peformance/risk measures for backtests of strategies?
You can use quantstats in Python.
https://github.com/ranaroussi/quantstats
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How to interpret the turnover formula?
This is a very standard approach for measuring turnover from portolio weights.
First, assume there are no buys or sales during the month. Then we can predict the weights at the end of the month from ...
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Risk-adjusted returns ratio that does not reward high risk for negative returns
Does this make sense? Consider this: You are an investor. You have 2 investments. 1 high risk (hr) and the other low risk (lr). You expect the hr to be volatile and expect the opposite from lr. ...
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Risk-adjusted returns ratio that does not reward high risk for negative returns
1) In a certain, theoretical sense, it does make sense: suppose two
portfolio managers delivered negative returns (-1%, say), and one
had a higher volatility ("risk") than the other. Then the ...
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Diversification investment metric for a FI portfolio
This extends to not just FI but multi asset class (MAC) as well. You can use a linear MAC factor model to compute specific\unsystematic risk.
Here's are several examples of such a model:
https://www....
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Accuracy for GARCH models
The best way to check the accuracy of a Garch model is to use the methodology of Hansen and Lunde (2005). In this paper they actually compared the accuracy of 330 Arch-type models and concluded that ...
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performance measure using pnl series
Adding to Attack68 answer- you can do a few things:
calculate total and average pnl over a given time.
calculate skew, kurtosis etc. as suggested above.
calculate hit rate.
calculate max drawdown.
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How to calculate the Maximum Drawdown for a portfolio in MATLAB?
Max drawdown of a portfolio is the loss relative to a previous high-water mark. It's typically calculated as you describe, calculating cumulative performance and maxDD relative to the previous equity ...
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