# Posts Tagged ‘ Portfolio Construction ’

## More on Factor Attribution to improve performance of the 1-Month Reversal Strategy

July 26, 2012
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In my last post, Factor Attribution to improve performance of the 1-Month Reversal Strategy, I discussed how Factor Attribution can be used to boost performance of the 1-Month Reversal Strategy. Today I want to dig a little dipper and examine this strategy for each sector and also run a sector-neutral back-test. The initial steps to

## Factor Attribution to improve performance of the 1-Month Reversal Strategy

July 16, 2012
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Today I want to show how to use Factor Attribution to boost performance of the 1-Month Reversal Strategy. The Short-Term Residual Reversal by D. Blitz, J. Huij, S. Lansdorp, M. Verbeek (2011) paper presents the idea and discusses the results as applied to US stock market since 1929. To improve 1-Month Reversal Strategy performance authors

June 26, 2012
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I want to continue with Factor Attribution theme that I presented in the Factor Attribution post. I have re-organized the code logic into the following 4 functions: factor.rolling.regression – Factor Attribution over given rolling window factor.rolling.regression.detail.plot – detail time-series plot and histogram for each factor factor.rolling.regression.style.plot – historical style plot for selected 2 factors factor.rolling.regression.bt.plot

## Volatility Position Sizing 2

June 11, 2012
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I have discussed Volatility Position Sizing in the Volatility Position Sizing to improve Risk Adjusted Performance post using the Average True Range (ATR) as a measure of Volatility. Today I want show how to use historical volatility to adjust portfolio leverage. Let’s start with Buy and Hold strategy using SPY and rescale it to the

## Volatility Quantiles

June 4, 2012
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Today I want to examine the performance of stocks in the S&P 500 grouped into Quantiles based on one year historical Volatility. The idea is very simple: each week we will form Volatility Quantiles portfolios by grouping stocks in the S&P 500 into Quantiles using one year historical Volatility. Next we will backtest each portfolio

## Volatility Position Sizing to improve Risk Adjusted Performance

April 30, 2012
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Today I want to show how to use Volatility Position Sizing to improve strategy’s Risk Adjusted Performance. I will use the Average True Range (ATR) as a measure of Volatility and will increase allocation during low Volatility periods and will decrease allocation during high Volatility periods. Following are two good references that explain these strategy

## Calling Systematic Investor Toolbox from Excel using RExcel & VBA

April 9, 2012
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RExcel is a great tool to connect R and Microsoft Excel. With a press of a button, I can easily execute my R scripts and present output interactively in Excel. This easy integration allows non-R users to explore the power R language. As an example of this approach, I want to show how to create

## Gini Efficient Frontier

March 23, 2012
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$Gini Efficient Frontier$

David Varadi have recently wrote two posts about Gini Coefficient: I Dream of Gini, and Mean-Gini Optimization. I want to show how to use Gini risk measure to construct efficient frontier and compare it with alternative risk measures I discussed previously. I will use Gini mean difference risk measure – the mean of the difference

## Backtesting Asset Allocation portfolios

March 18, 2012
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$Backtesting Asset Allocation portfolios$

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