Avi Mukesh.
MMath Warwick (First Class, 83%). Software Developer at Singletrack, four-plus years of maths tutoring, and a quant-finance creator on Instagram. Currently building a cross-sectional momentum strategy on crypto as the capstone for the WallStreetQuants bootcamp. Speedcubing and lifting in between.
A cross-sectional momentum
strategy on crypto.
A Python implementation of a cross-sectional price momentum strategy applied to a basket of eight Binance assets. Daily rebalance with a 20bps per-side cost model and a BTC regime filter that zeros short exposure in bull markets. A tweet-attention divergence signal is also explored, with taker imabalance and documented as a cautionary example of overfitting.
Net Sharpe 1.12 in-sample (2022–2024), against BTC buy-and-hold at 0.68 and an equal-weight basket at 0.51. Out-of-sample Sharpe of 0.70 on an expanded 17-coin universe. Near-zero beta confirms the alpha is not simply crypto market exposure.
Tweet-attention divergence showed measurable alpha decay — information coefficient +0.012 in 2022, decaying to -0.017 by 2024 — consistent with increasing market efficiency with respect to social signals.
A BTC regime filter zeros short exposure in bull markets, motivated by the empirical finding that the short leg bleeds consistently during sustained uptrends. Improves risk-adjusted returns across all in-sample years.
Turnover settles at 0.22 at 20bps/side; net Sharpe stays within 0.7 of gross.
A 2D parameter sweep across price and tweet lookback windows shows performance is robust across a broad neighbourhood, not a lucky local optimum.
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