Short-term return-based contrarian profits in the international index futures markets : 1993-2002
In this paper, we document return reversals and investigate contrarian profits in the context of international index futures markets. Both {4,4} and {5,5} contrarian strategies account for most of the statistically significant results. These findings are robust to missing observations, seasonality,...
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| Format: | Final Year Project |
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2008
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/10356/8903 |
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| Institution: | Nanyang Technological University |
| Summary: | In this paper, we document return reversals and investigate contrarian profits in the context of international index futures markets. Both {4,4} and {5,5} contrarian strategies account for most of the statistically significant results. These findings are robust to missing observations, seasonality, alternative profit measures, contract sizes, and exchange regulatory differences. |
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