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Long short portfolio optimization

Another attempt at long short dollar neutral portfolio optimization. It performs exceptionally well during the start but then P/L remains flattish through out after first 5 months. I banged my head against it but cannot figure out why. Anyone want to try?

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After the first year begins hitting a lot of unfilled on BZ and APFC

Thanks garyha. How did you find that out? So these orders are never filled?

A more advanced version of this that I haven't posted yet. It has a better version of track orders with an option to log unfilled orders (on by default) however you can maybe get there with https://www.quantopian.com/posts/track-orders.

What are the advantages of OAS for estimating the covariance matrix? Have you tried perhaps other methods such as shrinkage by ledoit and wolf or the simple constant correlation model?

I saw that there are other methods of shrinkage but I don't think a model will make that much difference in P/L.I could be wrong though.