From a historical perspective, Mercantilism was prevailing in the 18th century because Great Britain—“The World Factory” accumulated tremendous wealth from heavily relying on exporting and avoiding importing. Trading was not proved effective until Adam Smith’s 1776 classic publication “The wealth of Nations” first introduced the concept of the absolute advantage. After 40 years, David Licardo improved the theory of labor value by detailing the concept of the comparative advantage in his classic publication “The Principles of Political Economy and Taxation”. Under the Richardian model, international trade was proved better off for both nations. Our team aims at algorithmic trading for social good, providing liquidity and eliminate mispricing in the stock market as much as we can. Another reason of the idea is inspired by the book "The Man Who Solved the Market: How Jim Simons Launched the Quant Revolution". We are all fascinated by quantitative finance.
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First, we imput our factor data from Fama French/Carhart 4 Factors. Second, we use Markowitz's Mean-Variance Optimization Model to identity the optimal weights. Finally, we demonstrate our results via Python and Node.
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