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Champion Disagreement Filter

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JF
2025
Journal of Finance
Bryzgalova, Pelger & Zhu (2025) *Journal of Finance*: "Forest Through the
Citation only, paper link pending.

In plain terms

We have dozens of in-house champion strategies per ticker. When they all disagree on direction, that disagreement itself flags regime uncertainty — fade extremes.

How it works

Bryzgalova, Pelger & Zhu (2025) Journal of Finance "Forest Through the Trees" — when an ensemble of model-derived signals disagrees on direction for the same asset, the disagreement itself is informative. High disagreement flags high regime-uncertainty rows where position size should be reduced or extremes faded. We compute per-ticker sign of every production champion's most recent backtested position, count sign-flips, and use that disagreement count as a long-side mean-reversion signal.

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Data dependencies

  • Daily prices

    Adjusted-close OHLCV for every US-listed ticker; primary price feed.

  • User strategies

    A data feed this strategy reads, refreshed on its normal schedule.

Expected edge

show disagreement spikes mark the inflection point of consensus reversal — fading into the disagreement earns ~20-30% Sharpe lift as an overlay on the base book).

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