Three Quant Lessons from COVID-19 (Presentation Slides)

19 Pages Posted: 31 Mar 2020 Last revised: 8 May 2020

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Marcos Lopez de Prado

Cornell University - Operations Research & Industrial Engineering; Abu Dhabi Investment Authority; True Positive Technologies

Alex Lipton

Hebrew University of Jerusalem; Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)

Date Written: March 27, 2020

Abstract

Many quantitative firms have suffered substantial losses as a result of the COVID-19 selloff. In this note we highlight three lessons that quantitative researchers could learn.

Keywords: COVID-19, nowcasting, machine learning, Monte Carlo, backtesting, backtest overfitting

JEL Classification: G0, G1, G2, G15, G24, E44

Suggested Citation

López de Prado, Marcos and López de Prado, Marcos and Lipton, Alex, Three Quant Lessons from COVID-19 (Presentation Slides) (March 27, 2020). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3562025 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3562025

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