Purpose: The literature has demonstrated that lump-sum (LS) outperforms dollar-cost averaging (DCA) in uptrend markets while DCA outperforms LS only when the asset price is mean-reverted or downtrend. To bridge the gap in the literature, this study aims to use both Sharpe ratio (SR) and...

Cointegration analysis is used to study the spot and futures price relationships for two storable commodities, corn and soybeans, and a nonstorable commodity, live hogs, over a 13-year period, 1980 to 1992. For corn and soybeans, cointegration is found in most pre-harvest contracts (July), and...

Using settlement prices and 9 years of daily commitments for large reporting traders in the frozen pork bellies futures market, we find that these traders generate significant profits and the distribution of trader returns over time is not random. Further analysis finds that a subset of large...

This study examines the spot and futures price relationships using the cointegration approach for two storable commodities, corn and soybeans, over a thirteen-year period 1980 to 1992. It is found that specifying a time dimension in the cointegration relation is important to finding evidence of...

In this paper, we will investigate whether there is any Sharpe ratio rule or Omega ratio rule that can be used to show that one asset outperforms another asset if it has a higher Sharpe ratio and/or Omega ratio. We find that Sharpe ratio rule could not detect preference of both risk averters and...