hard · Market Microstructure

A quantitative researcher is evaluating a strategy that claims an annual alpha of 2.0% with an annual tracking error of 8.0%.

To be 95% confident that the alpha is not due to luck (using a one-sided t-test where t_crit ≈ 1.645), approximately how many years of data are required?

  1. 16 years
  2. 10 years
  3. 66 years
  4. 44 years

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