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Features capturing market regime - volatility state, trend strength, and liquidity conditions. Use when building regime-aware models or conditioning on changing market environments.
Features capturing market regime - volatility state, trend strength, and liquidity conditions. Use when building regime-aware models or conditioning on changing market environments.
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Momentum works in trending markets, mean-reversion in range-bound ones. Instead of manually switching strategies, feed regime indicators as features and let the model learn when each signal works.
Models trained on pooled data learn average relationships. If momentum has IC of +0.08 in trends and -0.04 in mean-reverting regimes, the pooled IC is near zero. Regime features let the model condition on the current environment rather than averaging across all of them.
import polars as pl
# Raw VIX level - non-stationary, scale-dependent, model cannot generalize
features = df.with_columns(regime_vix=pl.col("vix"))
import polars as pl
# Rolling-ranked regime indicator - stationary, bounded [0, 1]
features = df.sort("timestamp").with_columns(
regime_vix_pctl=(
pl.col("vix") - pl.col("vix").rolling_min(window_size=1260).shift(1) # 1260 ≈ 5 trading years
) / (
pl.col("vix").rolling_max(window_size=1260).shift(1)
- pl.col("vix").rolling_min(window_size=1260).shift(1)
),
regime_vol_zscore=(
pl.col("realized_vol") - pl.col("realized_vol").rolling_mean(252).shift(1)
)
/ pl.col("realized_vol").rolling_std(252).shift(1),
)
| Indicator | Captures | Computation |
|---|---|---|
| VIX percentile | Fear vs complacency | Rolling min-max rank of VIX |
| Realized vol z-score | Current turbulence vs history | Rolling z-score of 21d vol |
| ADX level | Trend strength | 14-period ADX (0-100 scale) |
| Yield curve slope | Growth expectations | 10Y - 2Y treasury rate |
| Average correlation | Diversification regime | Rolling pairwise correlation |
| Credit spread | Risk appetite | HY - IG spread |
import polars as pl
import numpy as np
df = df.sort("timestamp").with_columns(
# Trend strength (ADX-inspired: ratio of directional move to range)
trend_strength=(
pl.col("close").pct_change(21).abs()
/ (pl.col("close").rolling_std(21) * np.sqrt(21))
),
# Correlation regime (requires panel data)
avg_corr=pl.col("returns").rolling_corr(pl.col("market_returns"), window=63),
)
.shift(1) on all expanding/rolling regime statsml4t-engineer includes regime features in its catalog:
from ml4t.engineer import compute_features
features = compute_features(data, [
"adx",
"choppiness_index",
"volatility_percentile_rank",
"volatility_regime_probability",
])
Macro regime inputs like VIX term structure or yield-curve slope still need to be sourced separately and joined in as external features.
.shift(1) - no current-bar value in its own featurename: ml4t-regime-features description: "Features capturing market regime - volatility state, trend strength, and liquidity conditions. Use when building regime-aware models or conditioning on changing market environments." when_to_use: "Use when model performance varies across market environments" dependencies: [lookahead-bias] metadata: book_chapters: "8, 9" library: "ml4t-engineer" paths: ["**/*feature*.py", "**/*label*.py", "**/*barrier*.py", "**/*store*.py", "**/*horizon*.py", "**/*meta_label*.py", "**/*microstructure*.py", "**/*regime*.py", "**/*selection*.py"]
---
name: ml4t-regime-features
description: "Features capturing market regime - volatility state, trend strength, and liquidity conditions. Use when building regime-aware models or conditioning on changing market environments."
when_to_use: "Use when model performance varies across market environments"
dependencies: [lookahead-bias]
metadata:
book_chapters: "8, 9"
library: "ml4t-engineer"
paths: ["**/*feature*.py", "**/*label*.py", "**/*barrier*.py", "**/*store*.py", "**/*horizon*.py", "**/*meta_label*.py", "**/*microstructure*.py", "**/*regime*.py", "**/*selection*.py"]
---
# Regime Features
Momentum works in trending markets, mean-reversion in range-bound ones. Instead of manually switching strategies, feed regime indicators as features and let the model learn when each signal works.
## The Problem
Models trained on pooled data learn average relationships. If momentum has IC of +0.08 in trends and -0.04 in mean-reverting regimes, the pooled IC is near zero. Regime features let the model condition on the current environment rather than averaging across all of them.
## The Pattern
### WRONG
```python
import polars as pl
# Raw VIX level - non-stationary, scale-dependent, model cannot generalize
features = df.with_columns(regime_vix=pl.col("vix"))
```
### CORRECT
```python
import polars as pl
# Rolling-ranked regime indicator - stationary, bounded [0, 1]
features = df.sort("timestamp").with_columns(
regime_vix_pctl=(
pl.col("vix") - pl.col("vix").rolling_min(window_size=1260).shift(1) # 1260 ≈ 5 trading years
) / (
pl.col("vix").rolling_max(window_size=1260).shift(1)
- pl.col("vix").rolling_min(window_size=1260).shift(1)
),
regime_vol_zscore=(
pl.col("realized_vol") - pl.col("realized_vol").rolling_mean(252).shift(1)
)
/ pl.col("realized_vol").rolling_std(252).shift(1),
)
```
## Regime Indicator Catalog
| Indicator | Captures | Computation |
|-----------|----------|-------------|
| VIX percentile | Fear vs complacency | Rolling min-max rank of VIX |
| Realized vol z-score | Current turbulence vs history | Rolling z-score of 21d vol |
| ADX level | Trend strength | 14-period ADX (0-100 scale) |
| Yield curve slope | Growth expectations | 10Y - 2Y treasury rate |
| Average correlation | Diversification regime | Rolling pairwise correlation |
| Credit spread | Risk appetite | HY - IG spread |
## Building Regime Features
```python
import polars as pl
import numpy as np
df = df.sort("timestamp").with_columns(
# Trend strength (ADX-inspired: ratio of directional move to range)
trend_strength=(
pl.col("close").pct_change(21).abs()
/ (pl.col("close").rolling_std(21) * np.sqrt(21))
),
# Correlation regime (requires panel data)
avg_corr=pl.col("returns").rolling_corr(pl.col("market_returns"), window=63),
)
```
## Guardrails
- **Always use lagged values** - `.shift(1)` on all expanding/rolling regime stats
- **Rank or z-score** raw indicators - VIX at 20 means different things in 2017 vs 2020
- **Multiple indicators** - no single regime variable captures the full environment
- **HMM regimes have lookahead risk** - fit HMM walk-forward only, never on the full sample
## Production Implementation
`ml4t-engineer` includes regime features in its catalog:
```python
from ml4t.engineer import compute_features
features = compute_features(data, [
"adx",
"choppiness_index",
"volatility_percentile_rank",
"volatility_regime_probability",
])
```
Macro regime inputs like VIX term structure or yield-curve slope still need to
be sourced separately and joined in as external features.
## Checklist
- [ ] Regime features are stationary (percentile-ranked or z-scored)
- [ ] All use `.shift(1)` - no current-bar value in its own feature
- [ ] At least 2-3 independent regime indicators included
- [ ] Features are inputs to the model, not if/else trading rules
- [ ] HMM or changepoint models (if used) fitted walk-forward only
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