Behavioral Finance & Market Efficiency

When Markets Aren't Random, and What to Do About It

Test the Efficient Market Hypothesis directly. Run autocorrelation, runs, and variance-ratio tests on real data. Decompose risk through a behavioral lens to see which anomalies are real signal and which are just survivorship.

Quants and portfolio managers curious about EMH violations and edge measurement.

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Test weak-form efficiency on any ticker using three rigorous statistical tests.

Quantify autocorrelation, runs, and variance-ratio deviations.

Decompose realized returns into systematic and behavioral components.

Evaluate fund performance through a behavioral lens: is alpha skill or β masquerading?

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学习旅程

第 1 站，30 分钟，Performance Measurement

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Market Efficiency Tester

Autocorrelation, runs, and variance-ratio tests for the EMH.

Three weak-form EMH tests on the data of your choice.

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实例演示

Sample EMH test results on SPY (5y daily returns).

Test	Statistic	p-value	Verdict
Autocorrelation lag-1	ρ = 0.012	-	Tiny: efficient
Ljung-Box (10 lags)	Q = 14.3	0.16	Fail to reject
Runs test	z = 1.4	0.16	Random sequence
Variance ratio (q=2)	VR = 0.98	0.62	≈ random walk

第 2 站，30 分钟，Risk & Return

Risk Decomposition

Split a stock's risk into systematic (β-driven) vs idiosyncratic.

How much variance is explained by the market vs idiosyncratic noise?

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实例演示

Risk attribution for a sample fund: fairly market-driven.

Component	Variance Share	Annualized σ
Systematic	71%	17.4%
Idiosyncratic	29%	11.2%
Total	100%	20.6%

第 3 站，30 分钟，Performance Measurement

Sharpe / Treynor / Jensen

Compute every major risk-adjusted return ratio side-by-side.

Sharpe vs Treynor vs Jensen: which one tells you the most?

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实例演示

Famous 'alpha' fund: does it survive a behavioral audit?

Sharpe

0.78

对比 0.66

Treynor

0.052

对比 0.060

Jensen α

−0.6%

对比 -

Info Ratio

0.18

对比 -

应用所学知识

案例研究

Is Bitcoin's weekend autocorrelation a tradable signal?

Crypto markets trade 24/7, but volume drops 40-60% on weekends. Pre-2020 papers documented mild positive autocorrelation in BTC weekend returns (ρ ≈ 0.05-0.10). Run the Efficiency Tester on BTC-USD with daily data and see what the 5-year picture looks like now. With venues like Polymarket and Kalshi, weekend prediction-market liquidity has tightened the gap. Result: lag-1 ρ has decayed to ~0.02, no longer statistically significant after transaction costs. Lesson: documented anomalies often disappear once they're known and capital chases them.

试试 Market Efficiency Tester →试试 Sharpe / Treynor / Jensen →

案例研究

The 'low-vol anomaly': real signal or post-hoc rationalization?

Multiple papers show low-volatility stocks outperform high-vol stocks risk-adjusted (a violation of CAPM). Run risk decomposition on USMV (low-vol ETF) vs SPHB (high-beta ETF): USMV's β is ~0.7, SPHB's is ~1.4. Backtest 10 years: USMV returned 9.5% with σ=11%, SPHB returned 12% with σ=22%. Sharpe ratios: 0.50 vs 0.36 — the low-vol anomaly held over this window. But the gap shrank in the 2021-2023 'meme' regime. Lesson: anomalies persist when behavioral biases (lottery preference, leverage aversion) are durable; they fade when they're mispriced into ETFs.

试试 Risk Decomposition →试试 Sharpe / Treynor / Jensen →

Behavioral Finance & Market Efficiency

When Markets Aren't Random, and What to Do About It

Quants and portfolio managers curious about EMH violations and edge measurement.

完成后您将……

Test weak-form efficiency on any ticker using three rigorous statistical tests.

Quantify autocorrelation, runs, and variance-ratio deviations.

Decompose realized returns into systematic and behavioral components.

Evaluate fund performance through a behavioral lens: is alpha skill or β masquerading?

已探索 0/3 个 Labs

已保存在此设备

开始路径 →

Test

Statistic

p-value

Verdict

Autocorrelation lag-1

ρ = 0.012

Tiny: efficient

Ljung-Box (10 lags)

Q = 14.3

0.16

Fail to reject

Runs test

z = 1.4

0.16

Random sequence

Variance ratio (q=2)

VR = 0.98

0.62

≈ random walk

Component

Variance Share

Annualized σ

Systematic

71%

17.4%

Idiosyncratic

29%

11.2%

Total

100%

20.6%