This paper gives a long-term assessment in intraday prices reversal in the US stock index futures market following large price changes at the market open, We find highly significant intraday reversal in our yearly and day-of-the-week investigations. Moreover, the strength of the intraday...

On examination of three long-short investment strategies used by investment managers indicates that only the relative return and relative earnings surprise strategies provide significant risk-adjusted in a Fama and French three-factor model. None of the three strategies is size- and BE/ME-...

This paper explores the intraday behavior of the NASDAQ-100 futures index for momentum and reversals. A multiple regression model simultaneously (1) relates today's intraday returns to yesterday's and last night's returns, and (2) estimates how the relationship changes with the signs of...

The authors start by observing that the optimal holding periods for long, short, and long/short equity portfolios must vary with transaction costs. The optimal holding period ranges from six to nine months, depending upon the type of portfolios being considered. Optimal efficiency occurs in...

This paper examines the proportion of wealth invested in stock and bond portfolios as a function of the investors' age, i.e., investment horizon. It has become increasingly popular to advice investors to relocate their funds from a primarily stock portfolio to a primarily bond portfolio as they...