Trading Friction as a Momentum Killer
August 16, 2007 - Momentum Investing
…successful momentum trading may depend critically on restricting consideration to stocks with the lowest total transaction costs.
August 16, 2007 - Momentum Investing
…successful momentum trading may depend critically on restricting consideration to stocks with the lowest total transaction costs.
August 15, 2007 - Investing Expertise
Do the experts who arguably should have the most informed opinions, finance professors, believe that the U.S. stock market is efficient? Do they invest in accordance with their beliefs? In their August 2007 paper entitled “Market Efficiency and Its Importance to Individual Investors – Surveying the Experts”, James Doran, David Peterson and Colby Wright seek… Keep Reading
August 10, 2007 - Individual Investing
…some individual investors/traders do consistently earn economically significant abnormal returns.
August 9, 2007 - Calendar Effects
…both individual stocks and broad funds have, on average, appreciated overnight and stalled or declined during the trading day over the past 14 years. The first hour of trading may be the worst hour.
August 3, 2007 - Cartoons, Investing Expertise
But the market is just unsafe at any speed…
August 2, 2007 - Cartoons, Investing Expertise
But other people were forecasting even higher…
July 31, 2007 - Commodity Futures, Technical Trading
…market timing based on technical analysis is not reliably profitable for commodity futures.
July 26, 2007 - Political Indicators
…U.S. stocks tend be be most overvalued under Democratic Presidents, under popular Presidents, during election years and during years when no new major military conflicts start.