The authors analyze financial interactions between chartists with bounded leverage and fundamentalists within a heterogeneous agent model, focusing on the role of fundamentalists to stabilize prices. While many related studies are solely based on simulations, the authors analytically prove that...

This paper examines the profitability of dual moving average crossover (DMAC) trading strategies in the Russian stock market over the 2003–2012 period. It contributes to the existing technical analysis (TA) literature by testing, for the first time, the applicability of ordered weighted moving...

The volatility of investor returns depends not only on the volatility of the stocks investors hold but also on their time-varying capital exposure to these holdings. We measure investor returns as dollar-weighted returns (IRRs), and provide comprehensive evidence on the volatility of investor...

Risk forecasting is crucial for informed investment decision-making. Moreover, the salience of investment risk increases during economically uncertain times. In this paper, we study how sell-side analysts form expectations of firm risk, under different macroeconomic conditions (low versus high...

Compared to using the variance of index returns, managing investment by the average of the variance of index components (AV) produces significant return and ratio performance improvements. AV managed investment in the market index takes less extreme leverage making it more practical and cheaper...

This paper examines the advantages of incorporating strategic exposure to equity volatility into the investment-opportunity set of a long-term equity investor. We consider two standard volatility investments: implied volatility and volatility risk premium strategies. To calibrate and assess the...

The main task of this paper is to determine accuracy of some of widely used technical analysis techniques for MBI-10 stocks price forecast at MSE. We are testing accuracy of several technical analysis techniques: MACD (Moving-Average Convergence/Divergence), RSI (Relative Strength Index),...

The authors analyze financial interactions between fundamentalists and chartists within a heterogeneous agent model, focusing on the role of fundamentalists stabilizing prices. In contrast to related studies, which are based on simulations and calculations, they analytically prove that the...