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Is There Alpha in Borrow Fees?

Wed May 15 2024 by Brian Stanley
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Borrow fees reflect how likely short sellers think a stock is to decline. Can this information be incorporated into trading strategies as an alpha factor? This article uses Alphalens to explore the relationship between borrow fees and forward returns and uses Moonshot and Zipline to demonstrate ways to incorporate borrow fees into long or short strategies.

What Comes After a Dead Cat Bounce?

Tue Dec 01 2020 by Brian Stanley
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What happens after stocks suffer large one-day losses? This post finds that the proverbial "dead cat bounce" occurs overnight and is followed by continued losses the next day. Targeting international markets, I explore a trading strategy that aims to profit from the losses that follow a dead cat bounce.

Intraday Futures Calendar Spreads and the Impact of Transaction Costs

Tue Sep 24 2019 by Brian Stanley
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Intraday trading strategies offer great promise as well as great peril. This post explores an intraday trading strategy for crude oil calendar spreads and highlights the impact of transaction costs on its profitability.

Is Pairs Trading Still Viable?

Thu Aug 29 2019 by Brian Stanley
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Classic pairs trading strategies have suffered deteriorating returns over time. Can a research pipeline that facilitates the identification and selection of ETF pairs make pairs trading viable again? This post investigates such a pipeline.

Hedging Long-Term Risk with an Intraday Strategy

Mon Mar 18 2019 by Brian Stanley
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Do intraday strategies have a place in the portfolios of long-term investors and fund managers? This post explores an intraday strategy that works best in high volatility regimes and thus makes an attractive candidate for hedging long-term portfolio risk.

Intraday Momentum with Leveraged ETFs

Mon Mar 04 2019 by Brian Stanley
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Does forced buying and selling of underlying shares by leveraged ETF sponsors cause predictable intraday price moves? This post explores an intraday momentum strategy based on the premise that it does.

Exploiting Business Day Patterns in FX Markets

Sun Feb 17 2019 by Brian Stanley
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Do businesses exchange currencies in predictable ways that FX traders can exploit? This post explores an intraday EUR.USD strategy based on the hypothesis that businesses cause currencies to depreciate during local business hours and appreciate during foreign business hours.