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fuckletoogan

Minimizing costs for cross sectional strategies

Trading Strategies/Alpha

I run two highly uncorrelated cross sectional crypto strategies at the moment. without fees they achieve 2.5-2.9 sharpe. After taker fees and slippage, sharpes become ~1. Trading on hyperliquid.

what methods are there to reduce fees?

Right now I'm trying a few approaches:

- Hold positions if the signal is consecutive, only rebalancing if the signal flips. Tradeoff is that it loses a bit of performance since its designed to resize the position every bar, but the cost savings make up for it.

- Maker orders.

- Instead of going long the top 6 assets and short the bottom 6 assets, go long the top 3 and short bottom 3. This didnt really improve sharpe after fees

Are there any other ways to minimize costs that I'm not aware of?

Any input greatly appreciated

Posted Feb 28, 2026, 1:19 PM UTC

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