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Syncing Historical Data from IBKR: A Comprehensive Guide In this post, we’ll walk through a complete workflow for downloading historical data from Interactive Brokers (IBKR) and preparing it for analysis and backtesting. Why download from broker ? The core assumption is that we sync data directly from the broker, ensuring its accuracy while trading and backtesting. Once this data is downloaded, we can build ML data batches for training models....

Intro Santa Claus Rally is a well-known narrative in the stock market, where it is claimed that investors often see positive returns during the final week of the year, from December 25th to January 2nd. But is it a real pattern or just a market myth ? It is also claimed that next years returns are positively correlated to the Santa rally. But is it a real pattern or just a market myth ?...

Preface In my previous post, I developed a simple mean-reversion strategy based on an oscillating signal calculated from a stock’s distance to its 50-day simple moving average. However, the results revealed a key shortcoming: the algorithm struggled to account for momentum, leading to poorly timed exits during parabolic moves—either too early or too late. In this post, we’ll dive into momentum and conduct an analysis to validate our assumption. If we can confirm that incorporating momentum enhances the strategy, we’ll move forward with developing a more advanced approach to leverage it effectively....

Preface For those who know me, I spend a lot of time reading financial statements and analysing technical signals. While this is probably the known path, and the perhaps the wiser way to make money in the market - I am particularly interested in the mathematical, statistical and probabilistic nature of the market. Everyone who has tried their hand at trading, can atleast imagine how computers would be able to crunch through numbers better than humans....