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Strategy #0000000101 · Calendar effects and return decomposition

Overnight versus intraday returns
Enter observed return legs and separate next-period assumptions; choose overnight, intraday, both or a gap-fade scenario.

Close-to-open overnight returns and open-to-close intraday returns can have different risk premia, information response and trading costs. Research compares these return legs and holding windows, but markets, samples and execution times matter. This tool keeps supplied historical decomposition separate from the next-period scenario.

Beginner-friendlyAbout 8 minutesEvidence and practical analysis

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Understand the story. Then inspect the risk.

Start with a familiar situation, check the payoff, then test how the numbers change.

The idea · in two minutes

After decomposing overnight and intraday returns, what do alternative holding windows imply?

Close-to-open overnight returns and open-to-close intraday returns can have different risk premia, information response and trading costs. Research compares these return legs and holding windows, but markets, samples and execution times matter. This tool keeps supplied historical decomposition separate from the next-period scenario.

Enter observed return legs and separate next-period assumptions; choose overnight, intraday, both or a gap-fade scenario.

No tick or historical market data is loaded; overnight gaps, financing, taxes and actual slippage are not estimated.

  • Input assumptionsEnter observed return legs and separate next-period assumptions; choose overnight, intraday, both or a gap-fade scenario.
  • Model outputNo tick or historical market data is loaded; overnight gaps, financing, taxes and actual slippage are not estimated.

Illustrative research examples only. They are not live signals or a recommendation.

Variants · same family, different risk levers

Data quality, sample selection and execution assumptions affect results.

Compare signal, sample and implementation choices.

Related strategyRelationshipWhat changesNew cost or risk
Base scenarioManual inputsClose-to-open overnight returns and open-to-close intraday returns can have different risk premia, information response and trading costs. Research compares these return legs and holding windows, but markets, samples and execution times matter. This tool keeps supplied historical decomposition separate from the next-period scenario.No tick or historical market data is loaded; overnight gaps, financing, taxes and actual slippage are not estimated.
Conservative versionLower exposureReduce exposure and raise sample thresholds.May narrow strategy coverage.
Validation versionOut-of-sample reviewFreeze signal definitions before time-ordered evaluation.Needs more clean data and governance.

No tick or historical market data is loaded; overnight gaps, financing, taxes and actual slippage are not estimated.

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References

Primary sources and research used to describe the strategy and its limits.

  1. 01Lou, Polk & Skouras (2019), A Tug of War: Overnight Versus Intraday Returnsresearch