I came across a free source of Intraday Forex data while reading Forex Trading with R : Part 1 post. You can download either Daily or Hourly historical Forex data from the FXHISTORICALDATA.COM. The outline of this post: Download and Import Forex data Reference and Plot Intraday data Daily Backtest Intraday Backtest First,I created a 
Timely Portfolio has a nice post about linear models sytems for stock. The idea follows from the steps below: Get the weekly closing values of the S&P 500. Choose a time window (i.e. 25 weeks) and for each window, linearly regress the subset of closing values Choose an investment strategy based on the residuals, the
I want to highlight two great Visualization techniques I discovered by reading the fine blog from Timely Portfolio. First method is based on the lm System on Nikkei with New Chart. Let’s visualize Strategy’s Long/Short/Not Invested periods by highlighting the underlying (i.e. buy & hold) with green/red/gray. Following is a sample code that implements this 
In 2006 Mebane Faber published a great piece of research detailing an asset allocation system that was both very easy to understand and implement, as well as carrying very respectable risk adjusted returns.The details are available in his paper&nb...
I want to introduce the Transaction Cost and Execution Price functionality in the Backtesting library in the Systematic Investor Toolbox. The Transaction Cost is implemented by a commission parameter in the bt.run() function. You may specify the commissions in $ per share for “share” type backtest and as a percentage of total trade for “weight” 
Bootstrap your way into robust inference. Wow, that was fun to write.. Introduction Say you made a simple regression, now you have your . You wish to know if it is significantly different from (say) zero. In general, people look … Continue reading →
In the last post, Portfolio Optimization: Specify constraints with GNU MathProg language, Paolo and MC raised a question: “How would you construct an equal risk contribution portfolio?” Unfortunately, this problem cannot be expressed as a Linear or Quadratic Programming problem. The outline for this post: I will show how Equal Risk Contribution portfolio can be 
Here is another data downloading and parsing script, this one for the Dow Jones/UBS Commodities Indexes. Compared to the last post, this parser deals with multiple sheets and multiple columns in each sheet. It also constructs monthly series from the daily data, and stores it using a different symbol. Finally, it’s a good example of 
Strange that I am updating this post for a third time and nothing really has changed, but the fact that nothing has changed is incredibly interesting to me. Since it is an update, I will not duplicate the explanation, so please read the last vers...
I have previously described a few examples of portfolio construction: Introduction to Asset Allocation Maximum Loss and Mean-Absolute Deviation risk measures 130/30 Portfolio Construction Minimum Investment and Number of Assets Portfolio Cardinality Constraints Multiple Factor Model – Building 130/30 Index (Update) I created a number of helper functions to simplify process of making the constraints( 
Zero Inflated Models and Generalized Linear Mixed Models with R.
Zuur, Saveliev, Ieno (2012).
