MA5 MA

Simple moving average over latest close

Formula

Mean($close, 5)/$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)
0.0107
ICIR
0.156
Cross-section mean
1.0003
Cross-section std
0.0221
Min
0.9333
Max
1.0892

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.

Data export

alpha158.json

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MA10
Mean($close, 10)/$close
MA20
Mean($close, 20)/$close
MA30
Mean($close, 30)/$close
MA60
Mean($close, 60)/$close