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Ulcer Performance Index

by Tom Huggens, 5047 days ago
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The Ulcer Performance Index is a measure of investment or trading strategy performance and is constructed by dividing the excess return by the Ulcer Index. The calculation is almost the same as in the Sharpe Ratio, which is computed by dividing the excess return (Total strategy return minus the risk free rate) by the strategy or investment standard deviation.

In the Ulcer Performance Index, the Ulcer Index, which is a measure of risk (It measures the duration and depth of drawdowns), replaces the standard deviation. Measuring investment performance using the Ulcer Index has many advantages. First, unlike the standard deviation the Ulcer Index calculates downward changes only (The bad risk or the risk that really matter to traders and investors). Second, the Ulcer Index calculation takes into account the strings of losses that may result in significant drawdowns.

The Ulcer Performance Index can be found in the simulator report. You can also use the current technical analysis indicator to create trading rules based on the Ulcer Performance Index of individual securities.

Example:
rule = UlcerPI(5, 250) > 2;

In the first parameter, I have specified the risk-free rate, while in the second parameter I have set the look back period or the number of trading bars that is used to calculate the total return and the Ulcer Index.


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