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Momentum Crashes and Variations to Market Liquidity

Butt, Hilal Anwar - 2019

We document that the variation in market liquidity is an important determinant of momentum crashes that is independent of other known explanations surfaced on this topic. This relationship is driven by the asymmetric large return sensitivity of short-leg of momentum portfolio to changes in...

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Boosting carry with equilibrium exchange rate estimates

Rubaszek, Michał; Beckmann, Joscha; Ca'Zorzi, Michele; … - 2022

We build currency portfolios based on the paradigm that exchange rates slowly converge to their equilibrium to highlight three results. First, this property can be exploited to build profitable portfolios. Second, the slow pace of convergence at short-horizons is consistent with the evidence of...

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The Profitability of Technical Stock Trading has Moved from Daily to Intraday Data

Schulmeister, Stephan - 2010

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...

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Crowded Trades, Short Covering, and Momentum Crashes

Yan, Philip - 2014

Despite momentum's strong historical performance, its returns have large negative skewness and occasionally experiences persistent strings of sharp negative returns, referred as "momentum crashes" in the recent literature. I argue that momentum crashes are due to crowded trades which push prices...

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Momentum Crash Management

Heidari, Mahdi - 2015

Momentum is one of the largest and most pervasive market anomalies. However, despite a high mean and Sharpe ratio, momentum suffers from large negative skewness that comes from momentum crash periods. These crashes occur in times of both market stress and market rebound and thus variables that...

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The Profitability of Technical Stock Trading Has Moved from Daily To Intraday Data

Schulmeister, Stephan - 2021

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....

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Cyclical and persistent carry trade returns and forward premia

Zoubi, Haitham al- - In: The quarterly journal of finance 7 (2017) 4, pp. 1-33

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The Reserve Bank of Australia Intervention : Exchange Rate Volatility from FIGARCH Modelling

Ajmi, Ahdi Noomen; Ghorbel, Ahmed; Trabelsi, Abdelwahed - 2003

In this paper, we investigate the effect of the Reserve Bank of Australia on the $US/$A volatility in the period 1983 … various separate components. We test the existence of a long memory behaviour i.e. a finite persistence of volatility. To this … aim, we rely on a new mesure of volatility implied by the FIGARCH model that outperforms the traditionnally used GARCH one …

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Japanese Foreign Exchange Intervention and the Yen/Dollar Exchange Rate : A Simultaneous Equations Approach Using Realized Volatility

Hillebrand, Eric T.; Schnabl, Gunther; Ulu, Yasemin - 2021

We use realized volatility to study the influence of central bank interventions on the yen/dollar exchange rate … successful interventions, both in depreciating the yen and in reducing exchange rate volatility …. Realized volatility is a technical innovation that allows specifying a system of equations for returns, realized volatility …

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A Structural Break in the Effects of Japanese Foreign Exchange Intervention on Yen/Dollar Exchange Rate Volatility

Hillebrand, Eric T.; Schnabl, Gunther - 2021

volatility at the turn of the millennium when Japanese foreign exchange intervention started to remain unsterilized …

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