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A self-contained Jupyter notebook implementing a funding rate carry strategy for crypto perpetual futures.

What's included:

  • Data fetch from Binance public API (no API key required)
  • Signal: 7-day rolling average funding rate, enters when market pays you to hold long
  • Correlation-weighted short hedge to neutralize directional beta
  • Vectorized backtest engine (no look-ahead bias by construction)
  • Metrics: Sharpe, Calmar, max drawdown, win rate, monthly return heatmap
  • Parameter sensitivity grid (lookback window × entry threshold)
  • PDF tearsheet export via reportlab

In historical backtesting (2021-2024): Sharpe 1.2-1.8 during normal market conditions.

Requirements: Python, pandas, numpy, matplotlib, requests, reportlab. requirements.txt included.

Not financial advice. Past performance does not predict future results.

TAGS: crypto, quantitative finance, algo trading, python, jupyter, backtesting, funding rate

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Funding Rate Carry Strategy

Crypto Quant Notebook

A self-contained Jupyter notebook implementing a funding rate carry strategy for crypto perpetual futures.

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  • funding-rate-carry-v1.0.zip