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rotational strategy based on return over last (X) days

I was hoping someone with better skills than myself could code up an rotational strategy based on the SPDR sector ETFs that would involve holding the top 3(or 2 or 1) performing finds based on the last (x) days(20 for example). IF all of the funds had a negative return on the eval period then just go to cash. IF there is already something similar that I can clone, please point me towards it. Thanks,

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Hi JM R,

There is something pretty similar to this posted on here (https://www.quantopian.com/posts/mebane-faber-relative-strength-strategy-with-ma-rule).

Quick suggestions to fit it to your strategy:

  • Change context.top_k to whatever number of stocks you want to hold
  • Change the window_length of batch_transform to your liking (20 in this case)

The strategy does account for absolute momentum, so it will just go to cash if there's negative performance

-Seong

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