Questions tagged [strategy]

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Why is there no "meta-model"?

If I design a trading model, I might want to know the model's half life. Unfortunately, it doesn't seem possible to predict alpha longevity without a meta-model of the market. Intuitively, such a meta-model does not exist, but has that ever been…
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How to choose a rolling window type and size?

I'm developing a trading strategy which takes into account certain parameters (e.g. avg spread, weighted price, etc). Of course, these parameters can be calculated over different window types (i.e. last X minutes/ticks/trades) and sizes. Obviously,…
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Why should a self-financing strategy be previsible?

There is an amazing answer on mathematics stackexchange which defines what a self-financing strategy is—both in the discrete and continuous sense. Please check out this short answer to better understand my question. I have a short follow-up…
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What is the buyandsell strategy?

I have read such codes as below in buyandsell strategy from backtesting import Backtest, Strategy class BuyAndSellSwitch(Strategy): def init(self): pass def next(self): if self.position.size == 0: …
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how to measure a event driven strategy?

How to measure an event driven investment strategy? Say I have a strategy which I assume that if a firm has positive momentum and it has a refinance corporate action, it's value will increase. For strategies like this? How do I measure it?
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