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Calendar effects as conditioning variables, not signals
Calendar anomalies — turn-of-month, FOMC drift, end-of-quarter rebalancing — fail as stand-alone signals but earn their place as conditioning variables that gate when other signals are allowed to trade.
7 min read - Statistics · Regime · Risk
Regime filtering without overfitting: a practitioner's checklist
Regime models help when they reduce the variance of expected returns conditional on observable state. They hurt when they manufacture states that fit history but not the next month.
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