Here is my implementation of so-called naive risk parity where the portfolio weights are calculated as the inverse of volatility of each asset. This is considered naive because (well, among other things) it does not take correlations between assets into account.
Note that CAGR is about 4% and the very high Sharpe which is due to the approach generally favouring bonds
So, wondering if this is a bug or a feature (i.e., I'm doing it wrong)
It seems that @batch_transform functions are not handled properly when the arguments change. For example, in the source for this backtest, if one changes the refresh_period to 1 then it only calls get_volatility once per day (rather than what I expect, twice per day, once per security per day).
Also, specifying window_length seems to give a window of size window_length-1
Hi John,
The batch will be called once every refresh period. We combine all the events for all the sids into a pandas datapanel (one frame for prices, another for volume). That way, you can do operations on all the data in one structure. I would say that you should remove the second parameter to get_volatility and then just calculate the volatility in the dataframe. The reason you are only seeing one call instead of two is that batch_transform decorated methods expect to be called just once per handle_data. Calling them multiple times is frying our book-keeping for the moving window. You are not the first person bitten by the api, so we are looking into modifications to make it more clear.
I'm looking into the window_length, you may have found a bug.
thanks for all the feedback,
fawce
thanks,
fawce
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Thanks Fawce. I think I understand what you're saying, have written it up - it's attached, let me know if that is consistent. Also, the confusion may arise mainly due to the minmax() batch_transform example in your API docs.
Also, another couple of bugs/features:
Scrolling the log gets confused for me if I use my mouse wheel. I think this has to do with Mac OS smooth scrolling damping, which might send a rapid succession of up/down movements to damp the movement... it doesn't happen if i use page up/down
The backtest plot disappears after a few runs without any orders, for example, while printing data structures to the log
John,
Yes, that's the intended use. I would suggest making the volatility calculation completely as vector operations, rather than iterating through the columns. You can use the data_frame as though it were a scalar value and it will magically align everything and create a new dataframe of the volatility. It should be quite a bit faster than iterating over everything.
thanks,
fawce
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