import numpy as np import pandas as pd from strategies.base import Strategy class InverseVolatilityStrategy(Strategy): """ 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) -> pd.DataFrame: returns = data.pct_change() 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 = 1.0 / vol 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)