This paper investigates how technical trading systems exploit the momentum and reversal effects in the S&P 500 spot and futures market. The former is exploited by trend-following models, while the latter by contrarian models. In total, the performance of 2580 widely used models is analyzed. When...

This paper investigates how technical trading systems exploit the momentum and reversal effects in the S&P 500 spot and futures market. When based on daily data, the profitability of 2580 technical models has steadily declined since 1960, and has been unprofitable since .the early 1990s....

Die vorliegende Forschungsarbeit widmet sich der Thematik verhaltensorientierter Handelsstrategien zur Erzielung von Überrenditen am internationalen Aktienmarkt. Marktanomalien, die nicht im Einklang mit der neoklassischen Kapitalmarkttheorie stehen, bilden den primären Ansatzpunkt...