Given the increased attention of precious metals by investors and the finance literature as well as the growth of high frequency trading, the behaviour of intraday precious metal markets is of great interest and importance. Therefore, this paper examines the stylized facts, correlation and...

The compass rose pattern in financial data may indicate the presence of a nonlinear, possibly chaotic, data generating mechanism. Analysis reveals that over four equivalent subperiods, from 1996 to 2015, the compass rose pattern in gold returns fades. This feature provides an opportunity to...

This study examines the adaptive market hypothesis of the S&P500, FTSE100, NIKKEI225 and EURO STOXX 50 by testing for stock return predictability using daily data from January 1990 to May 2014. We apply three bootstrapped versions of the variance ratio test to the raw stock returns and also...