I've just started the effort of being a bit smarter about my forecast weights, so went back and re-read the handcrafting series and a few other...
I've been doing some research into relative momentum as implemented in Rob's latest book. I used my second of 3 copies for this research. Rather...
For me, SR is about 10% better for the modified version. That's all after costs, for exact same set of instruments and forecasts. I use Rob's...
Hi Luis, thanks for posting! I saw that and actually spent a good week trying to make that work, but I just couldn't figure it out. You defined...
I've been playing with DO implementation, and stumbled upon what could be a slight improvement so wanted to share. I've been trading Rob's...
I'm debugging something with my DO implementation (gist of the issue is, in my backtesting, performance of the DO drops significanly with lowering...
I'm not there yet with confidence level. Since I'm typing, small update from me. I've just completed a big effort to add more markets, sort of...
I was checking out your strategy report Rob (https://github.com/robcarver17/reports/blob/master/Strategy_report) and I noticed that you don't...
Thinking about this some more, why is a bimodal distribution an issue? If we had a bimodal distribution, with peaks at, say, -5 and 5, would that...
Hey Rob, I was doing some digging into various rules and stumbled upon a weird thing. The raw and smoothed forecasts for breakout have interesting...
Have you lagged your equilibrium calculation? I've found that to be the big difference in results, I posted the details here...
(Edit time has passed for the above post, so making a new reply). I ran the entire optimization, and I get optimal positions as (0, 1, 3) for 5...
Also, regarding DO, I think there might be a minor bug in the book, in the example that walks through an iteration of the greedy algorithm. Page...
Thanks for the summary Rob! I see fast MR system mentioned, so wanted to see if anybody has success replicating that. I took a go a few months...
I’d be interested in this as well @cholo if you get a chance. Regarding positions, I use Rob’s DO, and similar capital and risk target, and...
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