Hi everyone,
I read an article in the Wall Street Journal about how firearm company stocks tend to swing depending on which party holds majority office in the Senate. I created a simple alpha depicting this and wanted to share it.
When I finish up my other projects, I will see if it is possible to use Tingo News data to pull senate election results and machine learning to determine the effect on the guns industry.
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Hi Jovad,
Interesting strategy.
Just note that
self.Securities[i].SetDataNormalizationMode(DataNormalizationMode.Adjusted)is not neccessary as Adjusted is the default option.
To further test the theory behind this strategy, I've attached a backtest below which makes the strategy logic symmetrical. That is, if Democrats hold majority office, we long each symbol; If Republicans do, we short. See the attached backtest for reference.
Best,
Derek Melchin
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"An example of an indirect influence on markets is the announcement of a new military venture by a country in response to the outbreak of civil unrest or conflict abroad. This announcement likely would cause the price of the stocks of military equipment and weapons manufacturers to rise due to an expected increase in defense contracts, which in turn can raise the value of stocks for companies that supply military equipment parts and technology. It likely would raise the demand for, and price of, natural resources used to make these parts, which would raise the price of stocks representing particular mining and natural resource processing companies."
Maybe you can add this effect to the algorithm [when you add news reading] ...
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