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title: Short-Term Signals: Unlocking Alpha
url: https://www.ml-quant.com/papers/ssrn/4664417/
site: ML-Quant (https://www.ml-quant.com)
updated: 2026-09-26
license: Summaries CC BY 4.0; links go to the original sources
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identifier: SSRN 4664417
source_url: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4664417
featured: 2023-12-20
citations: unknown
topic: Trading, Microstructure & Execution
---


# Short-Term Signals: Unlocking Alpha

Unlocking Alpha: Investors can achieve substantial net alpha by combining short-term signals with advanced trading rules in a liquid global universe, which helps to reduce transaction costs.

- Source: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4664417
- Identifier: SSRN 4664417
- Released: 2022-06-01
- First featured: Quant Letter No. 30 (2023-12-20): https://www.ml-quant.com/issues/2023-12-20/
- Citations (Semantic Scholar): not tracked
- Published in: not yet
- Topic: Trading, Microstructure & Execution

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