Publications by systematicinvestor
Calendar Strategy: Month End
Calendar Strategy is a very simple strategy that buys an sells at the predetermined days, known in advance. Today I want to show how we can easily investigate performance at and around Month End days. First let’s load historical prices for SPY from Yahoo Fiance and compute SPY perfromance at the month-ends. I.e. strategy will open long position...
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Calendar Strategy: Option Expiry
Today, I want to follow up with the Calendar Strategy: Month End post. Let’s examine the perfromance Option Expiry days as presented in the The Mooost Wonderful Tiiiiiiime of the Yearrrrrrrrr! post. First, I created two convenience functions for creating a calendar signal and back-testing calendar strategy: calendar.signal and calendar.strategy...
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Calendar Strategy: Fed Days
Today, I want to follow up with the Calendar Strategy: Option Expiry post. Let’s examine the importance of the FED meeting days as presented in the Fed Days And Intermediate-Term Highs post. Let’s dive in and examine historical perfromance of SPY during FED meeting days: ######################################################################...
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Adjusted Momentum
David Varadi has published two excellent posts / ideas about cooking with momentum: VIX-Adjusted Momentum Error-Adjusted Momentum I just could not resist the urge to share these ideas with you. Following is implementation using the Systematic Investor Toolbox. ############################################################################### # Loa...
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