A quantitative equity strategy based on factors formed by industries in the S&P500

This paper presents and simulates a long-short market-neutral quantitative equity trading strategy for US stocks. First, economic intuition and academic researches for which this trading strategy is based upon will be explained. Second, to ensure that the trading strategy simulation would be as realistic as possible, I will introduce some trading constraints, investment guidelines, and other assumptions/ restrictions about the strategy's backtest setting. Third, I will put in detail how the trading model is built and how the strategy is executed. Fourth, the strategy's backtest result will be presented. Fifth, I will use some risk factors to analyze the strategy's performance as well as compare the strategy's results against these risk factors. Lastly, I conclude with several insights drawn from this research on quantitative investment.

Department dc:contributor.department

Sloan School of Management.

Grantor dc:publisher

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Year dc:date.issued

2011

Author dc:creator

• Liu, Jack Wen-Hao

Advisor dc:contributor.advisor

• John DeTore.

• Sloan School of Management.

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• M.I.T. theses are protected by copyright. They may be viewed from this source for any purpose, but reproduction or distribution in any format is prohibited without written permission. See provided URL for inquiries about permission.

Licence dc:rights.uri

• http://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/7582

Language dc:language.iso

eng

Handle dc:identifier.uri

http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/65809

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:dspace.mit.edu:1721.1/65809