Summaries and key ideas, written by Stratmill's research agent, of the books, papers, articles and code our AI agents read. Each page links to its original.
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The document outlines a systematic stock-selection model built from valuation, profitability, growth, operating-efficiency, and technical factors. It describes a scoring approach: choose candidate factors, test their predictive usefulness, remove redundant…
This Chinese stock-selection note proposes filtering for shares with price amplitude above 1, a daily maximum decline between 4% and 5%, and return on equity above 15% in each of the past five years. It combines a short-term price condition with a multi-year…
This selection rule screens main board stocks for turnover between 3% and 12%, circulating market capitalization between 5 billion and 10 billion yuan, and a positive institutional activity indicator. The document frames the combination as a way to consider…
This Chinese-language manual explains a portfolio optimizer for constructing benchmark-aware equity portfolios. It describes initializing the optimizer with a dated stock universe and benchmark, refreshing factor data for each trading date, and then…
This research digest summarizes two studies on equity signals. The first trains a deep neural network on five years of fundamental data to forecast future fundamentals. The summary reports that, relative to a simple forecast assuming current data persist,…
This document summarizes a framework for deciding whether and how to combine single-factor smart beta strategies with multifactor portfolios. It represents each candidate strategy as exposures to a small set of investable elementary smart betas—initially…
This strategy seeks to outperform the CSI 1000 while controlling industry, style, and individual-stock exposures. It proposes combining value, growth, size, quality, volatility or liquidity, and alternative signals. Factors are cleaned for outliers,…
The document summarizes a study of a composite fundamental factor based on the Piotroski framework and its stock-selection value in the Chinese A-share market. It reports that stocks in the highest factor decile outperformed those in the lowest by an average…
The document summarizes a study of a composite fundamental factor based on the Piotroski framework and its stock-selection value in the Chinese A-share market. It reports that stocks in the highest factor decile outperformed those in the lowest by an average…
A user asks how to express a specific six-session price pattern in a platform’s daily factor-expression syntax. The condition is that the latest close exceeds each of the previous five closes, while the close from five sessions earlier also exceeds the…
This Chinese-language post proposes an equity screen combining a positive MACD condition, positive price-to-earnings ratio, and an industry import-export measure for beverage and alcohol stocks. It interprets MACD above zero as a sign of an uptrend and…
This forum discussion asks how a visual stock-selection strategy combines multiple factors when no explicit weights are visible, and how the same logic might be represented in SQL. The example lists dividend yield, price-to-book, return on equity, and profit…
This short Chinese-language forum response explains the meaning of delayed entry in a factor test. A delay of N days is described as shifting the start of stock positions by N days from the original entry point. The purpose is to examine what happens when a…
This post describes a reproduction of a research report's “moderate risk” factor, framed around information contained in moments of unusually high trading volume. The author says intermediate factors are calculated and stored, while factor analysis is…
This collection of answers addresses common quantitative investing problems, including fixed-holding-period backtest sensitivity, judging factor data, evaluating strategies that fail live, factor development, market timing, and combining signals across…
The report classifies companies into startup, growth, mature, volatile, and declining stages using the signs of financing, operating, and investing cash flows. It describes differences among the groups: mature firms have the strongest profitability, while…
This report summary examines how to turn a supplied composite stock factor into a long-only index-enhancement portfolio. It contrasts common linear optimization, which is simple to compute but ignores relationships among stocks and can produce concentrated…
The report asks whether property-level real estate returns can be explained by style characteristics in addition to property type and location. Using quarterly data on more than 25,000 UK retail, office, and industrial properties from 2002 to 2020, it…
The article examines whether momentum and long-term reversal reflect changing exposures to priced risks rather than standalone return patterns. It tests whether past returns predict future realized betas, then uses an Instrumented Principal Component…
This installment of an overseas research review introduces two studies, one on strategic asset allocation and another on quantitative stock selection. The allocation study asks whether a portfolio should be rebalanced and how the frequency and size of…
This brief BigQuant forum exchange addresses how to construct a custom factor when it is not available as a precomputed field. The question proposes an expression combining single-quarter revenue less single-quarter cost, divided by average total assets over…
This stock-screening proposal combines three conditions: company market value below 10 billion yuan, no reported losses, and more than two limit-up days in the prior 10 days. It also seeks stocks with at least five moving averages converging, which the…
This document describes an annual year-end screen for Chinese equities. It combines a positive MACD reading, positive trailing P/E, and ROE above 15% in each of the prior five years. The stated rationale is to pair a trend signal with positive earnings…
This Chinese-market stock screen combines a beverage and alcohol industry filter with a turnover range of 3% to 12% and a holder-concentration condition described as below 20%. The article presents the criteria as a way to narrow candidates, then gives…