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by HorseRider
June 5th, 2014, 1:43 am
Forum: Careers Forum
Topic: standard payout for a quant pm
Replies: 0
Views: 5270

standard payout for a quant pm

<t>Hi guys, I am a new stat arb pm. Just got an offer. My question is what is the standard package for a stat arb pm? Base salary?pnl cut of gain? 10%? 15%? 25%?Is there a bonus if the firm is losing money but you are making money?Who owns the intellectual property? The firm or pm?Any other concerns...
by HorseRider
December 7th, 2013, 7:20 am
Forum: Trading Forum
Topic: Is there any way to sell signals?
Replies: 2
Views: 6574

Is there any way to sell signals?

Say if some one have some working signals, no matter where they from, and she does not want to trade on her own, how to sell them?
by HorseRider
November 15th, 2013, 3:23 pm
Forum: Trading Forum
Topic: Stock holding limits
Replies: 0
Views: 6513

Stock holding limits

<t>Hi guys, in Stat arb, you have long side and short side. And you want to have a position limit, say in terms of percentage of volume. My question is, what percentage one should have? say 10%? The second question would be, should each symbol have the same percentage? If not, what consideration mak...
by HorseRider
April 5th, 2012, 4:22 pm
Forum: Student Forum
Topic: How to explain PCA to an option trader
Replies: 4
Views: 14205

How to explain PCA to an option trader

Any good answer on this one? Thanks
by HorseRider
March 20th, 2012, 12:26 pm
Forum: Trading Forum
Topic: how to allocate
Replies: 7
Views: 15535

how to allocate

Edouard, I read somewhere else about your allocation too. But still wonder why not a different set of weight but just proportional to SR? Any mathematical proof? Another question is why not just allocate all money to the higher SR one? What's wrong with that?Thanks.
by HorseRider
March 19th, 2012, 6:21 pm
Forum: Trading Forum
Topic: how to allocate
Replies: 7
Views: 15535

how to allocate

Any rigid mathematics deduction? I tried, but it becomes quite messy soon.
by HorseRider
March 18th, 2012, 8:08 pm
Forum: Trading Forum
Topic: how to allocate
Replies: 7
Views: 15535

how to allocate

If one has two strategies A and B. A has higher Sharpe ratio than B. How would you allocate money between them? Thanks!
by HorseRider
March 16th, 2012, 12:30 pm
Forum: Trading Forum
Topic: How to execute
Replies: 2
Views: 14667

How to execute

Thank you very much
by HorseRider
March 15th, 2012, 9:24 pm
Forum: Trading Forum
Topic: Combining alphas
Replies: 5
Views: 15515

Combining alphas

This seems really a good question. I would like to hear from any advice too
by HorseRider
March 15th, 2012, 9:23 pm
Forum: Trading Forum
Topic: How to execute
Replies: 2
Views: 14667

How to execute

In a two-leg pairs trading, say, A and B, suppose A is more liquid than B, any consideration on how to execute a trade after identifying arbitrage?Thanks!
by HorseRider
March 7th, 2012, 1:35 am
Forum: Trading Forum
Topic: spy sharpe ratio
Replies: 2
Views: 15157

spy sharpe ratio

Each day I calculate daily return, X1...Xn. If I use mean(Xi)/sd(xi) * sqrt(252) ~= 6 But if I annulize each return by 252 * Xi = Yi, then obviously mean(Yi)/sd(Yi) = mean(Xi)/sd(Xi) = 0.37.Which number is correct?Thanks
by HorseRider
March 6th, 2012, 11:06 pm
Forum: Trading Forum
Topic: spy sharpe ratio
Replies: 2
Views: 15157

spy sharpe ratio

if one trade eod of SPY from beginning of year, what's the sharpe ratio?
by HorseRider
March 1st, 2012, 5:02 pm
Forum: Trading Forum
Topic: Questions after reading some pairs trading papers
Replies: 1
Views: 16162

Questions after reading some pairs trading papers

<t>Hi Dawg, I got some questions after reading some pairs trading papers recently.Some paper says to use Engle-Granger two step to regress y on x to a get a beta, and then trade with y-beta * xI have two questions about this:1. This beta generally will not give you market neutral, which means that y...
by HorseRider
February 28th, 2012, 2:13 pm
Forum: Technical Forum
Topic: linear regression question
Replies: 2
Views: 16145

linear regression question

<t>regress A on B, get very small R square, say 1% and B is not significant in t-testregress A on C, r-squared 57%, C is significant in t-testbut A regress on B + C, R square is 79%, and both B and C are significant in t-testQuestion: is A ~ B+C linear regression valid? What does it mean that A on B...
by HorseRider
February 28th, 2012, 1:34 pm
Forum: Technical Forum
Topic: rolling regression window size
Replies: 5
Views: 16541

rolling regression window size

Thanks