第一作者是纽约大学克朗数学学院金融工程主任教授 Marco Avellaneda ,曾在Capital Fund Management任head of volatility arbitrage,摩根斯坦利任固定收益研究副总裁
实用分析统计套利模型分析:分析运用统计套利模型(基于ETF和PCA)对美国股票市场过去20多年的运用
摘要
We study model-driven statistical arbitrage in U.S. equities. The trading
signals are generated in two ways: using Principal Component Analysis
and using sector ETFs. In both cases, we consider the residuals, or idiosyncratic
components of stock returns, and model them as mean-reverting
processes. This leads naturally to “contrarian” trading signals.
The main contribution of the paper is the construction, back-testing
and comparison of market-neutral PCA- and ETF- based strategies applied
to the broad universe of U.S. stocks. Back-testing shows that, after
accounting for transaction costs, PCA-based strategies have an average
annual Sharpe ratio of 1.44 over the period 1997 to 2007, with
much stronger performances prior to 2003. During 2003-2007, the average
Sharpe ratio of PCA-based strategies was only 0.9. Strategies based
on ETFs achieved a Sharpe ratio of 1.1 from 1997 to 2007, experiencing
a similar degradation after 2002.
We also introduce a method to account for daily trading volume information
in the signals (which is akin to using “trading time” as opposed to
calendar time), and observe significant improvement in performance in the
case of ETF-based signals. ETF strategies which use volume information
achieve a Sharpe ratio of 1.51 from 2003 to 2007.
The paper also relates the performance of mean-reversion statistical
arbitrage strategies with the stock market cycle. In particular, we study
in detail the performance of the strategies during the liquidity crisis of the
summer of 2007. We obtain results which are consistent with Khandani
and Lo (2007) and validate their “unwinding” theory for the quant fund
drawdown of August 2007.