FACTOR is the name of the index - you shouldn't worry abutabout it - it doesn't affect your data:
In [78]: df
Out[78]:
DATE REVENUE COST POSITION
FACTOR
10 2017/01/01 1000 900 10
11 2017/01/01 900 700 9
12 2017/01/01 1100 800 7
In [79]: df.index.name
Out[79]: 'FACTOR'
If you want to rename it or to get rid of it (preserving the index values) you can use DataFrame.rename_axis() methdmethod:
In [80]: df = df.rename_axis(None)
In [81]: df
Out[81]:
DATE REVENUE COST POSITION
10 2017/01/01 1000 900 10
11 2017/01/01 900 700 9
12 2017/01/01 1100 800 7
In [82]: df.index.name is None
Out[82]: True