The (Worldwide) Futility of Market Timing?
November 30, 2007 - Big Ideas
Can investors/traders outperform by exploiting (or avoiding) the black swans that populate daily equity market returns? In his November 2007 paper entitled “Black Swans and Market Timing: How Not To Generate Alpha”, Javier Estrada investigates the influence of the best and worst days on long-term equity returns and the likelihood that investors can predict when these outliers will occur. Using evidence from 15 international equity markets and over 160,000 daily returns, he concludes that: Keep Reading