The development of our financial algorithms and their backtesting has been carried out through a methodology that we consider appropriate and share in this section, aimed at investors most interested in quantitative issues.
Financial Algorithms and Backtesting – The Database
To get started, we want to make it accurate that our analytics databases use Nasdaq 100 prices (opening, max, minimum, and closing).
They also consider the closing value of NDX, VXN, SKEW, and IRX for option valuation.
The operating instructions generated by the financial algorithms are then transformed into QQQ units, but all calculations are based on Nasdaq 100.
It is worth clarifying, as the yields of Nasdaq 100 and QQQ are very similar, but not identical.
In addition, QQQ is a real asset and pays dividends, while Nasdaq 100 is an index.
Backtesting and Operations Alerts
Algorithms generate trading alerts on options that simulate exercise expirations of options tailored to their mathematical requirements.
In the market we do not have daily maturities for the exercise of options, as assumed by the Methodology of Financial Algorithms and Backtesting.
When our algorithms indicate trades based on a theoretical maturity, we adjust it to the actual maturities available on the market and based on this adjustment we generate trading alerts.
As for the prices used to measure results in algorithms, the Nasdaq 100 closing price is used to calculate options entry or exit prices, as well as closing volatility and skew.
Notifications are usually made before closing, so there will be differences between the entry and exit prices recorded by our database and those resulting from the exact moment an investor made their transaction that day.
These effects are usually offset in the medium term, as the differences are random.
Performances of Financial Algorithms and their Backtesting
For the calculation of yields, we have neglected the positive effects of profit reinvestments on increasing the position in QQQ over the course of each year, nor do we consider the negative effects of commission payments.
The costs of trading options have one fixed component per transaction and one variable per lot quantity, so they are very different depending on the size of the portfolio managed by the investor and the broker you have chosen.
It is also important to note that, over time, we will always measure and publish the results that arise from our algorithms.
Therefore, there may be smaller random differences, in more or less, with the yields that our subscribers actually see in their investment portfolios.
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