Short-horizon Contrarian and Momentum Strategies in Asian Markets: An Integrated Analysis

In this paper, we test the profitability of short-term contrarian and momentum strategies, which take into account the effects of trading activity, size/value characteristics, and asymmetric investor responses to news regarding stock markets in Japan, Taiwan, Korea, Hong Kong, Malaysia, Thailand, an...

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Main Authors: McInish, Thomas H., Ding, David K., PYUN, Chong Soo, Wongchoti, Udomsak
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Language:English
Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2008
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Online Access:https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/lkcsb_research/3592
https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/lkcsb_research/article/4591/viewcontent/Short_horizon_contrarian_2008_av.pdf
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Institution: Singapore Management University
Language: English
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Summary:In this paper, we test the profitability of short-term contrarian and momentum strategies, which take into account the effects of trading activity, size/value characteristics, and asymmetric investor responses to news regarding stock markets in Japan, Taiwan, Korea, Hong Kong, Malaysia, Thailand, and Singapore during 1990–2000. Except for the Taiwanese and Korean markets, “winner” (“loser”) portfolios experience subsequent reversal (momentum) of stock prices. Among actively traded stocks, significant contrarian profits can be obtained from only “winner” portfolios in Japan, while sizeable momentum profits from “loser portfolios” in both Japan and Hong Kong.