AppliedMultiple choice
Your gross Sharpe ratio is and your net Sharpe ratio is . What is the likeliest cause?
- AThe signal is not real and the gross number was noise
- BTurnover is too high for the size of the edge
- CThe positions are too large for the available capital
- DThe Sharpe ratio was annualised with the wrong factor
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