In November, I used the strategy in Mebane Faber's Tactical Asset Allocation paper to provide an introduction to blotter. Faber has updated the strategy's results through the end of 2009. For those interested, he expands on the paper in his book, The...
As posted by Dirk Eddelbuettel on R-SIG-Finance: R / Finance 2010: Applied Finance with R April 16 & 17, Chicago, IL, US The second annual R / Finance conference for applied finance using R, the premier free software system for statistical comput...
My last post provided examples of how to use the LSPM package. Those who experimented with the code have probably found that constrained optimizations with horizons > 6 have long run-times (when calc.max >= horizon).This post will illustrate how the s...
I have received several requests for additional LSPM documentation over the past couple days and a couple months ago I promised an introduction to LSPM. In this long-overdue post, I will show how to optimize a Leverage Space Portfolio with the LSPM pa...
blotter is an R package that tracks the P&L of your trading systems (or simulations), even if your portfolio spans many security types and/or currencies. This post uses blotter to track a simple two-ETF trading system. The contents of this post b...
I've been getting a bit of traffic from people searching for opentick (the defunct company), so I've started a list of similar (but non-free) data providers. I'm not affiliated with any of these vendors, and the list is in no particular order. I'll u...
Six months after shutting down opentick completely Xasax (opentick's parent company) has followed suit.It looks like Xasax hit funding problems in August... Inside Market Data mentions the above in this story. Here is the full story (subscription requ...
I can't believe it's been two months since I last posted... wow, time has a way of slipping through my fingers. Here's a short list of some upcoming posts: An introduction to LSPM -- a new R package that implements Ralph Vince's leverage space po...
Here's a quick R implementation of David Varadi's alternative to the RSI(2). Michael Stokes over at the MarketSci blog has three great posts exploring this indicator: Varadi’s RSI(2) Alternative: The DV(2) RSI(2) vs. DV(2) Last Couple...
Despite my best efforts, it's been a month since the last post of this series. The first post replicated this simple RSI(2) strategy from the MarketSci Blog using R. The second post showed how to replicate the strategy that scales in/out of RSI(2). ...
Zero Inflated Models and Generalized Linear Mixed Models with R.
Zuur, Saveliev, Ieno (2012).
