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Hi All,
I am working with the composite alpha model to generate insights from different alphas. I cannot find the code for that composite model so I was wondering how exactly it works? Does it accumulate the signals from all the individual alpha models and then sends them to Portfolio? Or it sends them to Portfolio as they come from each alpha model?
Basically, my question is how Portfolio handles duplicated insights and so on. Especially when they come at the exact same time from two models.
Thanks!
Emilio
Alexandre Catarino
Hi Emilio,
When we use CompositeAlphaModel, it loops through each Alpha Model and calls its Update method resulting in a collection of Insight objects from all Alpha Models. This collection of Insight is passed over to the Portfolio Construction Model (PCM).
The CompositeAlphaModel assing the Alpha Model name to each Insight.SourceModel attribute and that value can be used by the PCM to figure out, along with Insight.Confidence, Margniture or Weight, which Insight has precedence over others.
Note that the popular EqualWeightingPortfolioConstructionModel creates portfolio targets with no special insight precedence.
Ref.: Multi-Alpha Algorithms
Emilio Freire
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