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Overnight returns using pipeline

Hey guys,
Based on several readings I tried to exploit the negative autocorrelation between daily and overnight returns.
Trading takes place overnight.
Stocks were selceted based on the intraday returns, market capitailzation and previous overnight returns.
All the suggestions are welcome.

1 response

Hello Daniyar,

I would recommend looking at this through our alphalens tool. It will allow you to get a much deeper understanding of the statistics around the effect you're trying to observe. I would also recommend setting your trading costs to zero when running initial backtests so you can isolate whether your model is breaking because of trading costs or other problems. This doesn't matter when using alphalens because alphalens just does correlations and doesn't simulate trading.

Here is a lecture on how to use alphalens, post back here if you have any questions: https://www.quantopian.com/lectures/factor-analysis You should be able to copy paste your pipeline into the notebook and then run a full analysis. Some tweaking may be required of course. There's also a tutorial if you prefer that format: https://www.quantopian.com/tutorials/getting-started

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