There are three fundamental ways of testing the validity of an investment algorithm against historical evidence: a) the walk-forward method; b) the resampling method; and c) the Monte Carlo method. By far the most common approach followed among academics and practitioners is the walk-forward...

Concerns about the fragility of the financial system caused by the OTC derivatives market has encouraged the increased use of counterparty risk mitigation techniques including the use of market compression. In this process groups of market participants share position information via a third...