Using options price data on the Taiwanese stock market, we propose an options trading strategy based on the forecasting of volatility direction. The forecasting models are constructed with the incorporation of absolute returns, heterogeneous autoregressive-realized volatility (HAR-RV), and proxy...

We examine the effect of Chinese news on announcement drift and investigate its application to portfolio management, applying a linguistic analysis to extract various dimensions of the information content. Our empirical results reveal a positive (negative) relationship between news sentiment and...

We apply computational linguistic text mining (TM) analysis to extract and quantify relevant Chinese financial news in an attempt to further develop the classical early warning models of financial distress. Extending the work of Demers and Vega (2011), we propose a measure of the degree of...