Unveiling FinRL's Baseline Strategies and Key Trading Metrics for Portfolio Evaluation
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Authors:
(1) Xiao-Yang Liu, Hongyang Yang, Columbia University (xl2427,[email protected]);
(2) Jiechao Gao, University of Virginia ([email protected]);
(3) Christina Dan Wang (Corresponding Author), New York University Shanghai ([email protected]).
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Table of Links
Abstract and 1 Introduction
2 Related Works and 2.1 Deep Reinforcement Learning Algorithms
2.2 Deep Reinforcement Learning Libraries and 2.3 Deep Reinforcement Learning in Finance
3 The Proposed FinRL Framework and 3.1 Overview of FinRL Framework
3.2 Application Layer
3.3 Agent Layer
3.4 Environment Layer
3.5 Training-Testing-Trading Pipeline
4 Hands-on Tutorials and Benchmark Performance and 4.1 Backtesting Module
4.2 Baseline Strategies and Trading Metrics
4.3 Hands-on Tutorials
4.4 Use Case I: Stock Trading
4.5 Use Case II: Portfolio Allocation and 4.6 Use Case III: Cryptocurrencies Trading
5 Ecosystem of FinRL and Conclusions, and References
4.2 Baseline Strategies and Trading Metrics
Baseline trading strategies are provided to compare with DRL strategies. Investors usually have two mutually conflicting objectives: the highest possible profits and the lowest possible risks [43]. We include three conventional strategies as baselines.
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Passive trading strategy [31] is an easy and popular strategy that has the minimal trading activities. Investors simply buy and hold index ETFs [46] to replicate a broad market index or indices such as Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA) index and Standard & Poor’s 500 (S&P 500) index.
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Mean-variance and min-variance strategy [2] both aim to achieve an optimal balance between the risks and profits. It selects a diversified portfolio with risky assets, and the risk is diversified when traded together.
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Equally weighted strategy is a type of portfolio allocation method. It gives the same importance to each asset in a portfolio.
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FinRL includes common metrics to evaluate trading performance:
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Final portfolio value: the amount of money at the end of the trading period.
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Cumulative return: subtracting the initial value from the final portfolio value, then dividing by the initial value.
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Annualized return and standard deviation: geometric average return in a yearly sense, and the corresponding deviation.
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Maximum drawdown ratio: the maximum observed loss from a historical peak to a trough of a portfolio, before a new peak is achieved. Maximum drawdown is an indicator of downside risk over a time period.
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Sharpe ratio in (1) is the average return earned in excess of the risk-free rate per unit of volatility.
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This paper is available on arxiv under CC BY 4.0 DEED license.
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