2/2/2026, 9:00am What do the 12 strategies we developed this summer and blogged about here say as we head into February 2026? Before we share that let us first note that the strategies utilize volatility constraints ranging from 10% to 20%, and ticker concentration constraints ranging from 3% to 10%. VecViz has no idea where your risk […]
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We are always wary of the potential for decay in the performance of VecViz’s suite of machine learning-based analytics, especially since we have done zero retraining. Thus, we are somewhat surprised that 2025 was perhaps the strongest consecutive 12 months for individual metric performance.in VecViz’s nearly four year out of sample performance period, Here we
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What do the 12 strategies we developed this summer and blogged about here say as we head into 2026? Before we share that let us first note that the strategies utilize volatility constraints ranging from 10% to 20%, and ticker concentration constraints ranging from 3% to 10%. VecViz has no idea where your risk tolerance
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December 2, 2025 Each month we publish a 100+ page report for each individual VecViz volatility and expected return related features so that we can readily answer any of the following common concerns about summary performance stats: Quant Feature Quant Feature Eval Criteria Common Concerns: Expected forward return 1) correlation to forward returns2) interquartile range
December 2, 2025 Regimes help model builders differentiate market behavior into more stationary (and hence predictable) groupings. Regimes are commonly defined in terms of levels or growth rates in macroeconomic variables and market indices. Research on regime based models dates back at least to 1989. Here we discuss a regime framework built around the thesis
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December 2, 2025 Correlation measured using trailing returns is volatile and backward looking Many investors measure diversification via historic return correlation, which is itself correlated to volatility. When incorporated into portfolio risk metrics such as VaR, it can encourage selling amidst panics and buying amidst complacent booms. VecEvent based correlation is more stable and very
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December 2, 2025 Correlation based on historic returns is arbitrarily calculated and ignores price context How long should the lookback window be? What periodicity of returns should be used? Such questions confront anyone using Pearson correlation of historic returns to estimate portfolio risk. Results can vary significantly depending on the choices made. What doesn’t matter
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