Fully automated futures trading

Discussion in 'Journals' started by globalarbtrader, Feb 11, 2015.

  1. isotope1

    isotope1

    Actually, the backtests are currently coming out with a Sharpe of 8, so I'm inclined to think there's something wrong with them. It's quite challenging to backtest market making though. I've got a naive simulation (similar to what I did for futures/trend following). I'll try to build a more elaborate simulation using this https://github.com/paritytrading/parity , and try and simulate latency.
     
    #1341     Jan 12, 2018
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  3. Gambit

    Gambit

    @globalarbtrader Is it possible to get pysystemtrade version 0.16.0? I could not find it on github. Thank you.
     
    #1343     Jan 12, 2018
  4. Overnight

    Overnight

    Because it is what is traded.

    "Trading is conducted for delivery during the current calendar month; the next two calendar months; any February, April, August, and October falling within a 23-month period..."

    It is where your volume is, and where it will be.
     
    #1344     Jan 12, 2018
  5. sle

    sle

    You're gonna be RICH! Can I have an autograph?
     
    #1345     Jan 13, 2018
  6. isotope1

    isotope1

    Hahaha I hope so! But I really think the backtests are flawed, or otherwise, a lot of the overall uptrend of crypto is leaking into the results.

    On an aside note though, for anyone holding Palladium futures, it's been a great week!
     
    #1346     Jan 13, 2018
  7. Not just palladium, some other futures have also done nicely this week (and the weeks before).
     
    #1347     Jan 13, 2018
  8. sle

    sle

    In general, whenever trading delta-one products that have/had a very skewed distribution or a strong drift, you might want to break your trades into initiated buys and sells, with separate statistics.
     
    #1348     Jan 13, 2018
  9. traider

    traider

    Hey guys,

    how can i find a subset of instruments to trade based on minimising instrument correlation without using brute force optimization technique? Say there are 45 instruments in database and I want to pick N.
    Right now I'm thinking a clustering algo based on correlation
     
    #1349     Jan 14, 2018
  10. sle

    sle

    That, my friend, is an "maximum edge weight clique problem" and it's pretty darn hard to solve. There are alignment-style algorithms that approximate the solution, though.
     
    #1350     Jan 14, 2018