Quant trading
Reduce Trading Costs and Boost Profits with the “No-Trade Region” Strategy
An easy, practical way to harness an edge in the face of trading costs is the “no trade region” technique.
Reduce Trading Costs and Boost Profits with the “No-Trade Region” Strategy
-
-
BacktestingFXQuant tradingZorroExploiting The Non-Farm Payrolls Drift
Anyone that’s been around the markets knows that the monthly release of the United States Department of Labor’s Non-Farm Payrolls
-
FactorsOptionsQuant tradingRHow To Get Historical S&P 500 Constituents Data For Free
In this post, we are going to construct snapshots of historic S&P 500 index constituents, from freely available data on
-
BacktestingQuant tradingRTrading strategiesZorro
Kalman Filter Pairs Trading with Zorro and R
In the first three posts of this mini-series on pairs trading with Zorro and R, we: Implemented a Kalman filter
-
BacktestingCointegrationQuant tradingRTime series modellingTrading strategies
Kalman Filter Example:
Pairs Trading in RThis Kalman Filter Example post is the first in a series where we deploy the Kalman Filter in pairs trading.
-
BacktestingQuant tradingTrading strategiesZorro
Pattern Recognition with the Frechet Distance
Chart patterns have long been a favourite of the technical analysis community. Triangles, flags, pennants, cups, heads and shoulders…. Name
-
BacktestingQuant tradingThink like a trader
Backtesting Bias:
Feels Good, Until You Blow UpIn an ideal trading universe (free from backtesting bias), we’d all have a big golden “causation magnifying glass”. Through the
-
BacktestingQuant tradingRThink like a traderTrading booksTrading strategies
Dual Momentum Investing: A Quant’s Review
I recently read Gary Antonacci’s book Dual Momentum Investing: An Innovative Strategy for Higher Returns with Lower Risk, and it was
-
BacktestingQuant tradingThink like a traderTools of the trade
Back to Basics Part 3: Backtesting in Algorithmic Trading
This is the final post in our 3-part Back to Basics series. You may be interested in checking out the
-
BacktestingCointegrationFXQuant tradingRTrading booksTrading strategiesZorro
Exploring Mean Reversion and Cointegration: Part 2
In the first Mean Reversion and Cointegration post, I explored mean reversion of individual financial time series using techniques such
-
BacktestingFXZorro
Benchmarking backtest results against random trading part 2
In the first part of this article, I described a procedure for empirically testing whether a trading strategy has predictive