qlib/docs/component/strategy.rst

.. _strategy:

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Portfolio Strategy: Portfolio Management
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.. currentmodule:: qlib

Introduction
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``Portfolio Strategy`` is designed to adopt different portfolio strategies, which means that users can adopt different algorithms to generate investment portfolios based on the prediction scores of the ``Forecast Model``. Users can use the ``Portfolio Strategy`` in an automatic workflow by ``Workflow`` module, please refer to `Workflow: Workflow Management <workflow.html>`_.  

Because the components in ``Qlib`` are designed in a loosely-coupled way, ``Portfolio Strategy`` can be used as an independent module also.

``Qlib`` provides several implemented portfolio strategies. Also, ``Qlib`` supports custom strategy, users can customize strategies according to their own needs.

Base Class & Interface
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BaseStrategy
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Qlib provides a base class ``qlib.contrib.strategy.BaseStrategy``. All strategy classes need to inherit the base class and implement its interface.

- `get_risk_degree`
    Return the proportion of your total value you will use in investment. Dynamically risk_degree will result in Market timing.

- `generate_order_list`
    Return the order list. 

Users can inherit `BaseStrategy` to customize their strategy class.

WeightStrategyBase
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Qlib also provides a class ``qlib.contrib.strategy.WeightStrategyBase`` that is a subclass of `BaseStrategy`. 

`WeightStrategyBase` only focuses on the target positions, and automatically generates an order list based on positions. It provides the `generate_target_weight_position` interface.

- `generate_target_weight_position`
    - According to the current position and trading date to generate the target position. The cash is not considered in
      the output weight distribution.
    - Return the target position.

    .. note::
        Here the `target position` means the target percentage of total assets.

`WeightStrategyBase` implements the interface `generate_order_list`, whose processions is as follows.

- Call `generate_target_weight_position` method to generate the target position.
- Generate the target amount of stocks from the target position.
- Generate the order list from the target amount

Users can inherit `WeightStrategyBase` and implement the interface `generate_target_weight_position` to customize their strategy class, which only focuses on the target positions.

Implemented Strategy
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Qlib provides a implemented strategy classes named `TopkDropoutStrategy`.

TopkDropoutStrategy
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`TopkDropoutStrategy` is a subclass of `BaseStrategy` and implement the interface `generate_order_list` whose process is as follows.

- Adopt the ``Topk-Drop`` algorithm to calculate the target amount of each stock

    .. note::
        ``Topk-Drop`` algorithm：

        - `Topk`: The number of stocks held
        - `Drop`: The number of stocks sold on each trading day
        
        Currently, the number of held stocks is `Topk`.
        On each trading day, the `Drop` number of held stocks with the worst `prediction score` will be sold, and the same number of unheld stocks with the best `prediction score` will be bought.
        
        .. image:: ../_static/img/topk_drop.png
            :alt: Topk-Drop

        ``TopkDrop`` algorithm sells `Drop` stocks every trading day, which guarantees a fixed turnover rate.
        
- Generate the order list from the target amount

Usage & Example
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``Portfolio Strategy`` can be specified in the ``Intraday Trading(Backtest)``, the example is as follows.

.. code-block:: python

    from qlib.contrib.strategy.strategy import TopkDropoutStrategy
    from qlib.contrib.evaluate import backtest
    STRATEGY_CONFIG = {
        "topk": 50,
        "n_drop": 5,
    }
    BACKTEST_CONFIG = {
        "limit_threshold": 0.095,
        "account": 100000000,
        "benchmark": BENCHMARK,
        "deal_price": "close",
        "open_cost": 0.0005,
        "close_cost": 0.0015,
        "min_cost": 5,
        
    }
    # use default strategy
    strategy = TopkDropoutStrategy(**STRATEGY_CONFIG)

    # pred_score is the `prediction score` output by Model
    report_normal, positions_normal = backtest(
        pred_score, strategy=strategy, **BACKTEST_CONFIG
    )

To know more about the `prediction score` `pred_score` output by ``Forecast Model``, please refer to `Forecast Model: Model Training & Prediction <model.html>`_.

To know more about ``Intraday Trading``, please refer to `Intraday Trading: Model&Strategy Testing <backtest.html>`_.

Reference
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To know more about ``Portfolio Strategy``, please refer to `Strategy API <../reference/api.html#module-qlib.contrib.strategy.strategy>`_.