Financial Economics has quickly established itself as a strong and growing market. Introduction to Financial Economics by Frank Fabozzi, Edwin Neave, and Gaofu Zhou presents an introduction to basic financial ideas through a strong grounding in microeconomic theory. This calculus based text...

Using time-series trends of a set of firms' major fundamentals, we find that there is a fundamentalmomentum in the stock market. Buying stocks in the top quintile of fundamental trends and selling stocks in the bottom quintile earns a monthly average return of 0.88%, whose magnitude is...

In this paper, we propose a stop-loss strategy to limit the downside risk of the well-known momentum strategy. At a stop-level of 10%, we find, with data from January 1926 to December 2013, that the maximum monthly losses of the equal- and value-weighted momentum strategies go down from -49.79%...

Based on intraday data for a large cross section of individual stocks, we find that the risk component of stock returns exhibits strong intraday momentum, and this pattern holds from previous market close to 10:00, and every half hour since then until market close at 16:00. Strikingly, the...