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101 Formulaic Alphas

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We present explicit formulas - that are also computer code - for 101 real-life quantitative trading alphas. Their average holding period approximately ranges 0.6-6.4 days. The average pair-wise correlation of these alphas is low, 15.9%. The returns are strongly correlated with volatility, but have no significant dependence on turnover, directly confirming an earlier result based on a more indirect empirical analysis. We further find empirically that turnover has poor explanatory power for alpha correlations.

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  • Zura Kakushadze, 2016. "101 Formulaic Alphas," Papers 1601.00991, arXiv.org, revised Mar 2016.
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    7. Zura Kakushadze & Willie Yu, 2017. "Notes on Fano Ratio and Portfolio Optimization," Papers 1711.10640, arXiv.org, revised Apr 2018.
    8. Shuo Yu & Hongyan Xue & Xiang Ao & Feiyang Pan & Jia He & Dandan Tu & Qing He, 2023. "Generating Synergistic Formulaic Alpha Collections via Reinforcement Learning," Papers 2306.12964, arXiv.org.
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    12. Fan Fang & Carmine Ventre & Michail Basios & Leslie Kanthan & David Martinez-Rego & Fan Wu & Lingbo Li, 2022. "Cryptocurrency trading: a comprehensive survey," Financial Innovation, Springer;Southwestern University of Finance and Economics, vol. 8(1), pages 1-59, December.
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    14. Zura Kakushadze & Willie Yu, 2018. "Dead alphas as risk factors," Journal of Asset Management, Palgrave Macmillan, vol. 19(2), pages 110-115, March.
    15. Ahmed M. Khedr & Ifra Arif & Pravija Raj P V & Magdi El‐Bannany & Saadat M. Alhashmi & Meenu Sreedharan, 2021. "Cryptocurrency price prediction using traditional statistical and machine‐learning techniques: A survey," Intelligent Systems in Accounting, Finance and Management, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., vol. 28(1), pages 3-34, January.
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