📅 2024-01-18 — Session: Integrated OLS Residuals into Backtrader Strategies

🕒 13:10–14:20
🏷️ Labels: Backtrader, OLS, Residuals, Python, Algorithmic Trading
📂 Project: Dev
⭐ Priority: MEDIUM

Session Goal:

The session aimed to integrate residuals from Ordinary Least Squares (OLS) regression into Backtrader strategies for enhanced decision-making in algorithmic trading.

Key Activities:

  • Data Preparation: Calculated rolling OLS residuals using Python, Pandas, and Statsmodels for stock price data.
  • Optimization: Implemented performance optimization by calculating residuals with selected data points to speed up computation.
  • Strategy Implementation: Modified Backtrader strategies to incorporate residual data feeds, adjusting parameters for trading decisions based on calculated residuals.

Achievements:

  • Successfully calculated and integrated OLS residuals into Backtrader strategies.
  • Optimized the residual calculation process for efficiency.
  • Enhanced trading strategy by incorporating residuals into buy/sell decision processes.

Pending Tasks:

  • Further testing and validation of the strategy in live trading environments to ensure robustness and accuracy of decision-making.
  • Explore additional optimization techniques for residual calculation.