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Quantpedia in March 2025

April 10, 2025

Hello all,

What have we accomplished in the last month?

– A new front-end for Quantpedia Screener
– Integrated Portfolio Manager and Portfolio Analysis reporting
– A reminder for Quantpedia Awards 2025 competition with a $25.000 prize pool
– 3rd episode of the QuantBeats series
– 10 new Quantpedia Premium strategies have been added to our database
– 9 new related research papers have been included in existing Premium strategies during the last month
– Additionally, we have produced 6 new backtests written in QuantConnect code
– 6 new blog posts that you may find interesting have been published on our Quantpedia blog in the previous month

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Navigating Market Turmoil with Quantpedia Tools: A Rational Guide for Portfolio Management

April 7, 2025

The recent imposition of sweeping global tariffs by President Donald Trump has triggered a sharp and sudden selloff across global equity markets. In times like these, it’s natural for panic to set in. However, as quantitative investors, our strength lies in data-driven decision-making, risk management, and maintaining discipline when others lose theirs.

Rather than reacting emotionally, the prudent course of action is to reassess the robustness of our portfolios. Are we diversified across uncorrelated strategies? Do we have components in place that act as hedges during market crises? Fortunately, the tools provided by Quantpedia can help investors, traders, and portfolio managers identify, test, and deploy crisis-resilient strategies in a structured and evidence-based manner.

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How Mega Tech Stocks Impact Factor Strategies

March 26, 2025

The dominance of mega-tech stocks, particularly the “Magnificent 7,” in both U.S. and global equity indexes has a profound impact on factor portfolios. When constructing value-weighted smart beta strategies, these portfolios often end up heavily concentrated in a few individual stocks. This concentration introduces idiosyncratic risk, skewing the risk profiles of factor strategies. While no active strategy can entirely avoid the influence of these high-market-cap stocks, it is critical to limit their exposure to reduce idiosyncratic risk and improve the stability of factor-based approaches.

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How Global Neutral Rates Impact Currency Carry Strategies?

March 21, 2025

Market practitioners often rely on experience-based wisdom to navigate currency markets, and one such widely held belief is that low dispersion in global bond yields signals weak future returns for carry trades (and high dispersion implies high future carry returns). While this intuition makes sense—when yield differentials are compressed, the incentive to exploit them diminishes—a recent academic study provides a solid theoretical foundation for this idea. The research not only confirms this observation with rigorous empirical analysis but also explains the underlying financial mechanisms that drive the relationship. By quantifying the effect and presenting clear visualizations, the study transforms an intuitive market rule of thumb into a well-grounded principle backed by data.

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The Impact of the Inflation on the Performance of the US Dollar

March 14, 2025

Inflation is one of the key macroeconomic forces shaping financial markets, influencing asset prices across the board. In our previous analysis, we examined how gold and Treasury prices react to changes in the inflation rate, uncovering patterns that suggested inflation dynamics also impact the US dollar. In this follow-up, we shift our focus entirely to the dollar, analyzing how it responds to both accelerating and decelerating inflation. As the world’s reserve currency, the dollar’s movements have far-reaching implications, affecting global trade, monetary policy, and asset allocation. Our goal is to determine whether inflation serves as a clear driver of dollar performance and, if so, in what ways.

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Quantpedia in February 2025

March 11, 2025

Hello all,

What have we accomplished in the last month?

– An upgraded ETF Replication and Closest Neighbours reports
– A reminder for Quantpedia Awards 2025 competition with a $25.000 prize pool
– MesoSim discount announcement
– 11 new Quantpedia Premium strategies have been added to our database
– 11 new related research papers have been included in existing Premium strategies during the last month
– Additionally, we have produced 7 new backtests written in QuantConnect code
– 4 new blog posts that you may find interesting have been published on our Quantpedia blog in the previous month

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