{"id":50329,"date":"2020-06-26T11:34:01","date_gmt":"2020-06-26T15:34:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ibkrcampus.com\/?p=50329"},"modified":"2024-05-15T10:30:07","modified_gmt":"2024-05-15T14:30:07","slug":"transaction-costs-optimization-for-currency-factor-strategies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.interactivebrokers.com\/campus\/ibkr-quant-news\/transaction-costs-optimization-for-currency-factor-strategies\/","title":{"rendered":"Transaction Costs Optimization for Currency Factor Strategies"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A lot of backtests of systematic trading strategies omit transaction costs (in the form of spreads and fees). Simulation is then simpler, but resultant model portfolio and its performance can be misleading. In the case of currency factor investing, backtest without the tcosts simulation can pick currencies with wider spreads and higher volatilities. And in real trading, with real-world transaction costs, a strategy can, therefore, perform significantly worse than expected. A research paper written by Melvin, Pan, and Wikstrom offers an elegant optimization methodology to incorporate transaction costs into the backtesting process which allows strategies to retain their alpha \u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Authors:<\/strong>&nbsp;Michael Melvin, Wenqiang Pan, Petra Wikstrom<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Title:&nbsp;<\/strong>Retaining Alpha: The Effect of Trade Size and Rebalancing Frequency on FX Strategy Returns<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Link<\/strong>:&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/papers.ssrn.com\/sol3\/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3552383\">https:\/\/papers.ssrn.com\/sol3\/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3552383<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Abstract:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The literature on currency investing that incorporates transaction costs uses costs relevant for small trade sizes. 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