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Fear of Disasters?

…evidence suggests that fear of disasters accounts for large fractions, perhaps most on average, of both the equity risk premium and the volatility risk premium.

Technical Trading Thoroughly Tested on Emerging Currencies

…evidence from tests of an extensive set of technical trading rules as applied to emerging foreign exchange markets indicates that profitability of technical analysis, after correcting for data snooping bias, may be illusory.

Review of The Mutual Fund Strategist Timing (Revised to Append Comment)

…evidence from simple tests does not support a belief that The Mutual Fund Strategist timing signals beat simple free timing signals based on a 200-day simple moving average.

Amplifying Momentum with Volume and Accounting Indicators

…investors may be able to boost momentum returns for individual stocks substantially by incorporating information from past trading volume and detailed analysis of firm fundamentals.

Classic Paper: Mohanram’s Efficient Growth Investing

…tailored fundamental analysis may be able to identify growth stock mispricing and earn substantial abnormal returns.

Do Not Trade at the Open?

“Does it really help to wait a half hour (or whatever) before trading?”

A Few Notes on The Little Book of Behavioral Investing

…The Little Book of Behavioral Investing is a broad survey of behavioral biases and countermeasures as related to financial markets, especially for value investors. The self-awareness espoused may be as important to successful investing as valuation methods.

Steven Jon Kaplan: Overly Contrarian?

As requested by a reader, we evaluate here Steven Jon Kaplan’s commentary at True Contrarian since May 2002 (the earliest listed before a 5/22/11 reset that discarded posts prior to 5/18/11). Steven Jon Kaplan states that “each issue will feature my intermediate-term financial outlook, my long-term financial outlook.” The table below quotes forecast highlights from the… Keep Reading

Effects of Earnings Releases on Option Prices?

“Are you aware of research on the before and after impacts of company earnings releases on option prices?”

Use Short-term Signals to Inform Rebalancing?

…evidence suggests that long-term investors may be able to boost net Sharpe ratio by using high-frequency signals to make trade-or-delay decisions at each scheduled portfolio rebalancing.