News and sentiment in news often influence financial markets and asset prices. While this is well-recognized by investors, only few studies have used sentiment in news to predict future developments in financial markets to formulate alpha generating strategies, let alone create a best practice...

This paper examines whether there exists a momentum effect after one-day abnormal returns in the cryptocurrency market. For this purpose a number of hypotheses of interest are tested for the BitCoin, Ethereum and LiteCoin exchange rates vis-à-vis the US dollar over the period...

This paper examines how different categories of COVID–19 news sentiment differentially impact the behavior of cryptocurrency returns. A nonlinear technique of transfer entropy is applied to investigate the relationship between the top 30 cryptocurrencies by market capitalization and COVID–19...

This study discovers a statistically and economically significant intraday anomaly on Bitcoin markets. Positive returns of 0.58 bps per minute are disproportionately concentrated at the turn of 15-minute candles (in minutes 0, 15, 30, and 45 of each trading hour). Average returns in other...

Student-managed investment funds typically pursue “plain vanilla” objectives that satisfy risk-adverse university administrators. We demonstrate the value of adding option strategies to reduce the risk of equity positions around earnings announcements. Such trading strategies enhance the...

This paper tests the efficiency of macroeconomic forecasts, contributing to the existing literature using a rolling-event approach. We construct a monthly economic surprises index, aggregating several macroeconomic news surprises for the nine largest economic areas (G9), which we further analyze...

This paper examines cross regional differences in news tone, for the same news event, and relates it to trading activity of local and non-local investors. Using a combination of detailed investor and media data the results show that when news, particularly locally sourced news, is republished...

Retail investors pay over twice as much attention to local companies than non-local ones, based on Google searches. News volume and volatility amplify this attention gap. Attention appears causally related to perceived proximity: first, acquisition by a nonlocal company is associated with less...

This paper examines cross regional differences in tone for the same news event and relates it to local trading activity. Using a combination of detailed investor and media data the paper shows that local individual investors seem to be significant net buyers of local stocks that are in the local...