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Combining intra-day futures strategies with negative correlation produces portfolio Sharpe of 3.

This notebook investigates the outcome of combining two negatively correlated intraday futures strategies. The first strategy is an intraday futures mean-reversion algo the second strategy is a intraday futures momentum algo. The combined result has significantly higher Sharpe and lower volatility than individual strategies.

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Hey Charles,

Very cool analysis. Do you have an idea of what the challenges of trading this might be? You're applying both a momentum and mean reversion model, are they on similar timeframes? How often do the models produce opposite signals, etc. I'm not an expert in futures so I'm legitimately curious here.

Overall though you're demonstrating the power of independent model diversification.

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Hey Charles, do you have source code that you can put up? Would love to test this out myself.