Investing Research Articles

…the profitability of pairs trading relates strongly to differences between paired stocks regarding: (1) the speed with which news is likely to diffuse across the shareholder bases; and, (2) the frictions which probably inhibit acting on this news.

…equity traders may find the trading rules in Short Term Trading Strategies That Work interesting, but they should consider potential limitations in the supporting analyses and recognize the challenge of reliably extracting economic value from such rules with trading frictions in a real, continuously managed series of trades.

…the current environment may challenge the lifetime experience of most investors regarding the relationship between the inflation rate and stock returns.

…medium-term momentum investing may be profitable in most, but not all, international equity markets.

…Profit from the Peak offers a range of stock recommendations to exploit a long-term energy shortage, but historical data suggest that a portfolio constructed from these stocks may be quite volatile with some big hits and big misses. These stocks, equally weighted, have underperformed the broad stock market out-of-sample.

…non-financial firms with high levels of cash tend to use the cash for risky growth, earning higher average stock returns with higher beta. Trading frictions from rebalancing to capture the abnormal returns would tend to offset the alpha.

…options buyers (sellers) might want to tilt toward stocks with high (low) betas, large (small) market capitalizations, low (high) book-to-market ratios and significant (no) momentum.

…the professional investors at ValueInvestorsClub.com on average successfully identify and exploit value opportunities by focusing mostly on mismatches between stock price and intrinsic value.

…evidence from a few tests does not support a belief that trend reversals in the 10-day lagging average S&P 500 index put-call ratio predicts reversals in the level of the S&P 500 index.

…recent S&P 500 aggregate bottoms-up earnings growth estimates have often been highly variable and substantially inaccurate.