The motivation for this paper is to apply a statistical arbitrage technique of pairs trading to high-frequency equity data and compare its profit potential to the standard sampling frequency of daily closing prices. We use a simple trading strategy to evaluate the profit potential of the data...

The motivation for this paper is to show the usefulness of the information contained in the open-to-close (day) and close-to-open (night) periods compared to the more frequently used close-to-close period. To show this we construct two versions of a contrarian strategy, where the worst...

The motivation for this paper is to show that even a simple strategy based on conditional autocorrelation can give traders an edge. Our simple mean reversion strategy takes the position in a pair consisting of Exchange traded funds (ETFs) or shares based on the normalized previous period's...