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Despite momentum's strong historical performance, its returns have large negative skewness and occasionally experiences persistent strings of sharp negative returns, referred as "momentum crashes" in the recent literature. I argue that momentum crashes are due to crowded trades which push prices...
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study we investigate the mean-volatility spillover effects that happen across international stock markets. The study, by … taking into consideration the stock market returns based on various indices, investigates the mean-volatility spillover … precise and separate measures of return spillovers and volatility spillovers. The analysis provides the evidence of strong …
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This work evaluates the behavior of portfolios comprised of Brazilian stocks ranked by their volatility to investigate … the low volatility anomaly.Between January 2003 and December 2021, the low volatility portfolio presented a 6% annual … return above the high volatility portfolio. This result is aligned with the observation made by Blitz and Van Vliet (2007) in …
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This study shows how correlated information consumption (CIC) of retail investors relates to comovement in stock market outcomes. We construct clusters of stocks with CIC by employing network analysis on Google co-search data. We predict significant comovement in returns and liquidity of stocks...
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Portfolios in idiosyncratic momentum are formed on past residuals of the Fama-French three factor model rather than past total returns. This study examines whether the idiosyncratic momentum strategy can sustain excess returns following the emergence of traded options. We compare idiosyncratic...
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In this paper we argue that momentum profits are driven by both past performance and the relative proximity to an available reference point, the 52-week high. We construct momentum-style portfolios that are driven strictly by past returns which we call ‘run' based measures, and compare these...
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Does the disposition effect appear in bond trades as in stocks?. We apply the Odean's measure (1998) to a proprietary transaction database with unique investor ids from an emerging market exchange that holds both stock and bond trading. We find some disposition effect in treasuries, but much...
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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%...
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Momentum is one of the largest and most pervasive market anomalies. However, despite a high mean and Sharpe ratio, momentum suffers from large negative skewness that comes from momentum crash periods. These crashes occur in times of both market stress and market rebound and thus variables that...
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This paper studies the profitability of a selection of prominent momentum-based strategies in the European Monetary Union. In contrast to past examples documenting the lack of profitability of unconditional price momentum in the most recent decade, the current research finds that unconditional...
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