Own-research

Quantitative investors usually start their research by analyzing individual trading strategies. They compare performance, risk, implementation complexity, market exposure, and the economic intuition behind each anomaly. However, once historical equity curves of individual strategies are available, a different research question becomes possible. Instead of asking only which individual strategy looks attractive, we can ask how to allocate capital across a broad universe of strategies.

The Quantpedia API makes this type of analysis practical. It provides access not only to strategy metadata, but also to historical strategy equity curves. Therefore, users can move from strategy discovery to systematic strategy portfolio construction.

Artificial intelligence is gradually changing the way quantitative researchers interact with financial data. Instead of manually browsing databases, comparing strategies one by one and filtering spreadsheets, modern research workflows increasingly rely on conversational systems capable of retrieving and summarizing structured information automatically.

One practical application is combining the Quantpedia API with an LLM such as ChatGPT, Claude or Cursor AI to create a lightweight quant research assistant. In this setup, Quantpedia API provides structured access to quantitative trading strategies, performance metrics, classifications, equity curves, trading codes, and related research metadata through the official Quantpedia API, while the LLM acts as a conv

Welcome to the Quantpedia Awards 2026 winners announcement. For the third time, we are proud to celebrate excellence in quantitative research and recognize the researchers behind innovative studies in quantitative trading. We are also pleased to see that the Quantpedia Awards have become an established and recognized brand within the quant community. This is the moment we have all been waiting for: who made it into the top five, and what will the authors of the winning papers receive?

Our study explores a weekly-rebalanced dual-momentum-based Global Tactical Asset Allocation (GTAA) strategy applied to a diversified set of ETFs. The strategy selects assets based on relative momentum and applies an absolute momentum filter to avoid declining investments. Ultimately, a single combined strategy was created by merging two sub-strategies, incorporating both shorter- and longer-term momentum signals. Backtesting over an extended period demonstrates that this approach delivers attractive risk-adjusted returns, achieving attractive Sharpe and Calmar ratios, while maintaining lower drawdowns compared to a simple equally weighted benchmark.

The growing dominance of passive investing has fundamentally altered the dynamics of equity markets. A substantial share of trading volume is now driven by index-tracking strategies, which mechanically allocate capital based on index membership rather than company-specific fundamentals. This raises an important question: can predictable flows associated with index rebalancing be systematically exploited?

One of the advantages of the Quantpedia Pro platform and its Portfolio Analysis toolkit is the ability to analyze not only multi-asset and multi-strategy portfolios but also individual equity curves. Users can upload virtually any return series or analyze assets already present in the database. The same analytical tools used for portfolio construction can therefore also be applied to single assets.

Given the current macro-driven environment, commodity markets—particularly crude oil—offer a relevant case study. The United States Oil Fund (USO) ETF serves as a practical proxy for oil price dynamics. By analyzing its equity curve through Quantpedia Pro, we can explore whether persistent patterns, behavioral effects, or structural inefficiencies exist and whether they can be transformed into systematic trading strategies.