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Old 11-08-2007, 11:27 AM
DcifrThs DcifrThs is offline
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Default Re: Market Model Thingy

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does any other "fixes" come to your mind regarding data analysis in matlab? like something along the pinv type fix?

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Can't think of a major fix right now.

If there are higly correlated inputs one could also use Principal components analysis (PCA)

Here is the Matlab link:

matlab

There are lot of good tutorials on it online.

One interesting anecdote (this is not first hand - you might be able to verify or deny it) I read at wilmott was that DE Shaw used it as their first strategy to trade a basket of stocks, becasue some of the components were predictable. But since then, it has been eliminated.

Once I checked out the strategy on one sector and it was seemed pretty useless.

So it is unlikely that OP's strategy would be very scaleable....but maybe he is onto something.

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yea i'm familiar w/ PCA. very useful way to analyze large data sets. that is the methodology that really proved to me that eigenvalues/vectors are useful [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]

interesting stuff about DEShaw using it initially. understandable that it can't be used anymore.

thanks for your inputs.
Barron
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