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Example 7.17 in Introduction to Monte Carlo methods with R

Example 7.17 in Introduction to Monte Carlo methods with R | Quantitative Investing | Scoop.it
(This article was first published on Xi'an's Og » R, and kindly contributed to R-bloggers)
I received the following email about Introducing Monte Carlo Methods with R a few days ago:
Hallo Dr.
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Informational Portfolios

Informational Portfolios | Quantitative Investing | Scoop.it
Nice article out of Morningstar’s ETFInvestor where they are now tracking six new quant models of ETFs.  Many of these use the 12-month SMA and various combinations of value and momentum.
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Were markets exceptionally volatile in 2011?

Were markets exceptionally volatile in 2011? | Quantitative Investing | Scoop.it
(This article was first published on The Average Investor's Blog » R, and kindly contributed to R-bloggers)
2011 was a volatile year, no doubt about that, but was it exceptionally so from a historic point of view?
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Functional approach to portfolio modeling

Good evening everybody, I’ve been paying attention to portfolio modelling for the past few months.
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You’ve got the whole world in your portfolio

You’ve got the whole world in your portfolio | Quantitative Investing | Scoop.it
(This article was first published on Decision Science News » R, and kindly contributed to R-bloggers) LEARN HOW TO IMPORT WORLD BANK DATA AND INVEST IN THE WHOLE WORLD Click to enlarge The market cap of the countries comprising 90% of the...
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Programming traps when using "sample"

Programming traps when using "sample" | Quantitative Investing | Scoop.it
(This article was first published on R snippets, and kindly contributed to R-bloggers)
Standard sample function works differently when it gets single element integer vector as opposed to longer vectors.
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An R function to map your Twitter Followers

An R function to map your Twitter Followers | Quantitative Investing | Scoop.it
(This article was first published on Simply Statistics, and kindly contributed to R-bloggers)
I wrote a little function to make a personalized map of who follows you or who you follow on Twitter.
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Volatility estimation and time-adjusted returns

Volatility estimation and time-adjusted returns | Quantitative Investing | Scoop.it
(This article was first published on Portfolio Probe » R language, and kindly contributed to R-bloggers)
Do non-trading days explain the mystery of volatility estimation?
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Running your R and LaTeX Infrastructure from a portable USB Drive

Running your R and LaTeX Infrastructure from a portable USB Drive | Quantitative Investing | Scoop.it
(This article was first published on [R]appster, and kindly contributed to R-bloggers) On my road to eventually running all of my programs off an USB device I’ve gotten a little bit closer yesterday thanks to input from Duncan Murdoch and...
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UseR! 2011 slides are now available

UseR! 2011 slides are now available | Quantitative Investing | Scoop.it
(This article was first published on Apply R, and kindly contributed to R-bloggers)
I have just realized that UseR! 2011 presentation slides are now available from the conference web site.Unfortunately, no big surprise this year.
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From datasets to algorithms in R

From datasets to algorithms in R | Quantitative Investing | Scoop.it
Many statistical algorithms are taught and implemented in terms of linear algebra. Statistical packages often borrow heavily from optimized linear algebra libraries such as LINPACK, LAPACK, or BLAS. When implementing these algorithms in systems such as Octave or MATLAB, it is up to you to translate the data from the use case terms (factors, categories, numerical variables) into matrices.

 

In R, much of the heavy lifting is done for you through the formula interface. Formulas resemble y ~ x1 + x2 + …, and are defined in relation to a data.frame. There are a few features that make this very powerful:
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Backtesting with Short positions

Backtesting with Short positions | Quantitative Investing | Scoop.it
(This article was first published on Systematic Investor » R, and kindly contributed to R-bloggers) I want to illustrate Backtesting with Short positions using an interesting strategy introduced by Woodshedder in the Simple, Long-Term...
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Alpha decay in portfolios

(This article was first published on Portfolio Probe » R language, and kindly contributed to R-bloggers)

How does the effect of our expected returns change over time?
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S&P Composite Earnings, Long Term P/E

S&P Composite Earnings, Long Term P/E | Quantitative Investing | Scoop.it
Long term look at Composite Earnings and P/E, using 10 year average: > click for ginormous version All charts courtesy of Bianco Research...
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Revisiting “Quant Approach to Tactical Asset Allocation”

Revisiting “Quant Approach to Tactical Asset Allocation” | Quantitative Investing | Scoop.it
Over the years, I have become friendly with Mebane Faber, co-founder and the Chief Investment Officer of Cambria Investment Management. He manages an ETF called the Cambria Global Tactical ETF (GTAA).

Back in 2007, Meb authored an excellent paper titled “A Quantitative Approach to Tactical Asset Allocation.” It was published in the Journal of Wealth Management, Spring 2007.

That analysis tested and reviewed simple timing models, using a 10-month moving average on various asset classes as a signal to enter and exit asset holdings. Compared with traditional “Buy & Hold” investing, the performance improvements across all asset classes were quite significant. The methodology has the advantage of being objective, unemotional and mechanical (fee free to insert “first wife” joke here).

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Monetary Policy & Credit Easing pt. 8: Econometrics Tests in R

Monetary Policy & Credit Easing pt. 8: Econometrics Tests in R | Quantitative Investing | Scoop.it
(This article was first published on The Dancing Economist, and kindly contributed to R-bloggers) Hello, folks its time to cover some important econometrics tests you can do in R.The Akaike information criterion is a measure of the...
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Asynchronous Financial Data processing using F#

Asynchronous Financial Data processing using F# | Quantitative Investing | Scoop.it
Hi everyone, I was looking at a book to find some algorithm to detect clusters within financial data. I managed to find a decent algorithm for that matter, but I then wanted to test it on some real data.
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An R wish list for 2012

An R wish list for 2012 | Quantitative Investing | Scoop.it
(This article was first published on Quantum Forest » rblogs, and kindly contributed to R-bloggers) I expect there will be many reviews and wish lists for R this year, with many of them focusing on either running speed or dealing with large...
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A Tool Chain for Plotting Twitter Archive Retweet Graphs – Py, R, Gephi

A Tool Chain for Plotting Twitter Archive Retweet Graphs – Py, R, Gephi | Quantitative Investing | Scoop.it
(This article was first published on OUseful.Info, the blog...
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CrossValidated: A place to post your statistics questions

CrossValidated:  A place to post your statistics questions | Quantitative Investing | Scoop.it
(This article was first published on Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science » R, and kindly contributed to R-bloggers) Seth Rogers writes: I [Rogers] am a member of an online community of statisticians where I burn a...
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Create maps with maptools R package

Create maps with maptools R package | Quantitative Investing | Scoop.it
(This article was first published on Statisfaction » R, and kindly contributed to R-bloggers)
Baptiste Coulmont explains on his blog how to use the R package maptools.
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Installing Rcpp on Windows 7 for R and C++ integration

Installing Rcpp on Windows 7 for R and C++ integration | Quantitative Investing | Scoop.it
(This article was first published on Consistently Infrequent » R, and kindly contributed to R-bloggers) Introduction Romain Francois presented an Rcpp solution on his blog to an old r-wiki optimisation challenge which I had also presented R...
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Multi-Asset Backtest : Rotational Trading Strategies

Multi-Asset Backtest : Rotational Trading Strategies | Quantitative Investing | Scoop.it
I want to discuss the implementation of Rotational Trading Strategies using the backtesting library in the Systematic Investor Toolbox.The Rotational Trading strategy switches investment allocations throughout the time, betting on few top ranked...
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Fitting distributions with R

Fitting distributions with R | Quantitative Investing | Scoop.it

A good starting point to learn more about distribution fitting with R is Vito Ricci's tutorial on CRAN. I also find the vignettes of the actuar and fitdistrplus package a good read. I haven't looked into the recently published Handbook of fitting statistical distributions with R, by Z. Karian and E.J. Dudewicz, but it might be worthwhile in certain cases, see Xi'An's review. A more comprehensive overview of the various R packages is given by the CRAN Task View: Probability Distributions, maintained by Christophe Dutang.

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The art of R programming

The art of R programming | Quantitative Investing | Scoop.it
(This article was first published on Research tips » R, and kindly contributed to R-bloggers)


This is a gem of a book. It will become the book I give PhD students when they are learning how to write good R code.
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