Hello all,
I'm new to Quantopian and have zero experience with coding. I would like to backtest the investing strategies of a couple high dividend ETFs, accounting for dividend reinvestment. The two ETFs are SPHD by PowerShares and SPYD by SPDR. SPHD takes the 75 highest dividend yielding stocks in the S&P 500 (with a max of 10 per sector) then screens for the 50 least volatile based on a trailing 252 day. The fund is then weighted toward highest yield. SPYD is simply the 80 highest yielding stocks in the S&P 500 weighted evenly across all 80. Both funds are rebalanced semi-annually.
If anyone has the time to backtest these investment strategies (buying the single securities that meet the fund criteria, NOT simply backtesting the ETFs) over a 10 year or greater timeframe I would be very grateful. It would be a huge bonus if you could include dividend reinvestment into the overall return.
Thank you in advance to anyone who takes on the challenge!