MA20 MA
Simple moving average over latest close
Formula
Mean($close, 20)/$close
The expression above is verbatim from qlib Alpha158/360 feature engineering (qlib/contrib/data/loader.py, Apache-2.0). The platform qlib-compatible expression engine evaluates it on the deterministic research panel.
Cross-section statistics & information coefficient
IC mean (60M)
0.0145
ICIR
0.283
Cross-section mean
0.9986
Cross-section std
0.0664
Min
0.8477
Max
1.2611
IC = Spearman-style rank correlation between the factor cross-section and next-month returns, computed over the last 60 months on the deterministic research panel.