Currency Portfolio Backtesting Software Manual

Technical Report
Authors

Clinton Watkins

Published

20 March 2018

Publication details

Joint Sumitomo Mitsui Asset Management – Kobe University Research Project on Currency Forecasting

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This note explains the functionality of a long-short currency strategy backtester that has been coded in R. The following sections cover the inputs required by the backtester, the optimisation used to generate holdings, and the backtest empirics and analyses produced.

Keywords: Currency returns, Long-short investment strategy, Backtest, R, Code