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Hi everyone,
As we all know we are in a pandemic, and retail stores have been hit exceptionally hard by this. One way to model the profitably or recovery of these stores is by analyzing their foot traffic.
The algorithm uses foot traffic data purchased from SafeGraph to trade Home Depot. If the slope of the one-week simple moving average is negative we enter a short position and if positive we enter a long position. Also, trades are submitted every trading day at 8:30 am.
Although the data set only looks back one month, the approach of using alternative data can provide investors with unique insights and patterns on the returns of a particular stock, ETF, or sector.
Some unanswered questions: What is the average spend per customer? Is there an inverse correlation between in-store sales and online sales?
To protect the IP of SafeGraph's data, the dropbox link included in the algorithm does not work. However, they are offering discounts for their data which can be found here.
Cheers,
Jovad Uribe
Derek Melchin
Hi Jovad,
Thanks for sharing this algorithm with the community! To continue its development, consider replacing the RollingWindows with SimpleMovingAverage indicators and warming them up in Initialize. Additionally, line 64 should be adjusted to read
self.SetHoldings("HD", -(self.investP*1.4), True)so leverage is applied as intended.
Best,
Derek Melchin
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Da dadaa
Hi Jovad
Really interesting. Do you think that one week is long enough? It would be interesting to try to optimise by time frame. Or another thought since market sentiment will lag foot traffic a lagging indicator like two moving average crossover might get a closer corralation to the market.
Just a thought.
Jeff
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Jovad Uribe
Hi Da dadaa,
I do not think one week is long enough. If we had more than one month of foot traffic data, we could further optimize the timeframe. A lagging sentiment indicator would be very interesting to see. I think it would be very useful to validate or reinforce the algorithms predictive power.
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