Commodity factor investing via machine learning

Shunwei Zhu, Chunyang Zhou, Hailong Liu and Yangyang Ren

Pacific-Basin Finance Journal, 2024, vol. 83, issue C

Abstract: We investigate the factor investing in Chinese commodities markets following two steps. The first step is to find profitable characteristics. We find that some technical characteristics can produce a comparable out-of-sample performance to the fundamental characteristics. The second step is to integrate various commodity characteristics to generate a composite signal. We apply the naïve equal-weighted model, three linear models and four tree-ensemble nonlinear models for style integration. The empirical results show that the four nonlinear machine learning integration models produce better out-of-sample performance than the linear models. Meanwhile, among the four tree-ensemble algorithms, the XGBoost algorithm performs best with control of the overfitting problem.

Keywords: Factor investing; Style integration; Machine learning (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2024
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DOI: 10.1016/j.pacfin.2023.102231

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