ROC5 ROC

Rate of change: close d days ago over latest close

Formula

Ref($close, 5)/$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)

0.0078

ICIR

0.124

Cross-section mean

0.9998

Cross-section std

0.0476

Min

0.8611

Max

1.1800

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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ROC10

Ref($close, 10)/$close

ROC20

Ref($close, 20)/$close

ROC30

Ref($close, 30)/$close

ROC60

Ref($close, 60)/$close

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