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Hello,
I created a basic trading strategy designed to play upon the historically high correlation of two stocks to maximize return. The basic premise of the strategy is to bet on the convergence between the two stocks when the spread in prices is high.
The strategy utilizes a long term Relative Performance Index, which calculates the price of one stock over the other over a given time period. Then, a daily Relative Performance Index is created, and if this Index hits two Standard Deviations above or below the mean RP, you long the undervalued stock and short the overvalued stock, expecting prices to return back to equilibrium in the near future.
This was my first attempt at a trading strategy, so if anyone has any suggestions, I would be happy to hear them!
Bryan Wang
Ruslan
Pretty interesting results with Visa and Mastercard:
Petter Hansson
Beware the implementation is heavily long biased, because the code is brittle (and possibly incorrect w.r.t author's intention, but I'm not sure). Mastercard has nearly increased 10-fold in value since 2008, which reflects in the algo results; you will suffer from selection bias this way.
A better way to implement the orginal algo would be to compute target signals (as 0, 1 or -1 per stock) and then calculate order quantities as a separate step to match targets - that way it becomes clearer what's happening.
Attached a backtest with a bit more statistics added to Relative Performance chart to illustrate this (sorry for clutter, mouseover values).
Jared Broad
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Michael Manus
whats the idea behind the target signals? or how something like that could be calculated? any ideas?
Bryan Wang
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