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quant-trading/strategies/inverse_vol.py
Gahow Wang 722cade974 fix: unify backtest execution and add forward validation candidates
Share point-in-time signals and a cash-funded order ledger across backtests and trading. Correct eligibility, missing-price fills, quality factors, regime inputs, warmup windows, and cash-injection accounting. Add reproducible registered-strategy comparisons and paired forward candidates with a 20% resize band.

Validation: 125 Python tests, 23 web tests, TypeScript/Vite build, 87 strategy causality checks, and real-data target/order/equity parity for 10 strategies.
2026-10-01 02:24:01 -07:00

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import numpy as np
import pandas as pd
from strategies.base import StockStrategy, mask_scores
class InverseVolatilityStrategy(StockStrategy):
"""
Risk parity via inverse-volatility weighting.
Allocates capital inversely proportional to each asset's realized volatility
over a rolling window. Assets with lower recent volatility receive larger
allocations, equalizing the risk contribution of each position.
This is a simple but robust baseline for risk-based portfolio construction.
"""
def __init__(self, vol_window: int = 20):
self.vol_window = vol_window
def generate_signals(self, data: pd.DataFrame, eligible: pd.DataFrame | None = None) -> pd.DataFrame:
returns = data.pct_change(fill_method=None)
vol = returns.rolling(self.vol_window).std()
# Replace zero vol with NaN to avoid division by zero
vol = vol.replace(0, np.nan)
inv_vol = mask_scores((1.0 / vol).where(data.notna()), eligible)
row_sums = inv_vol.sum(axis=1).replace(0, np.nan)
signals = inv_vol.div(row_sums, axis=0).fillna(0.0)
signals.iloc[:self.vol_window] = 0.0
return signals.shift(1).fillna(0.0)