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Algorithmic Short Selling with Python - Second Edition
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"CAPM and beta imply that buying riskier stocks should give you higher returns, but the data says the opposite".
Joel Greenblatt
Beta measures how much a stock moves relative to its benchmark. High beta means stocks move "faster" than the market and vice versa for low beta stocks. For example, a beta of 1.2 means that when the benchmark moves by 1%, the issue would move by 1.2%. Market participants really need to understand how beta works and more specifically how to balance the Long/Short net beta exposure.
In the following subsections, we will download historical prices since January 2015. We define and calculate monthly beta. We perform some sector analysis. We define high and low beta custom indices. We calculate daily log and cumulative returns. We then drill down to the highest and lowest betas' returns.
Without further ado, let's download the historical...
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