Technical paper/Investment strategies
Technical trading versus buy and hold: a framework using common indicators in the US stock market
The author proposes a technical trading framework which incorporates trend-following, conditional active trading, stop-loss mechanisms and trading volume in formulating strategies
Navigating investment choices: determinants of corporate investment strategies in Japan’s nonfinancial sector
Investment decisions driven by fine-tuned large language models and uniform manifold approximation and projection-supported clustering and hierarchical density-based spatial clustering
Timing minimum-variance investment in the Canadian stock market
Delving into the investment psyche: investigating the determinants influencing individual investors’ decision-making
The authors investigate five cognitive biases and how they impact investment decisions, using data from 400 investors to determine which factors are significant factors in the making of investment decisions.
Optimal time-consistent reinsurance and investment strategies for multiple dependent types of insurance business and a unified investment framework
This paper puts forward a novel insurance and illustrate the impact of model parameters on optimal investment strategies.
Getting more for less: better A / B testing via causal regularisation
A causal machine learning algorithm is used to estimate trades’ price impact
Uncovering the hidden impact: noninvestor disagreement and its role in asset pricing
The authors investigate the link between noninvestors and financial returns using data from a social media platform.
A novel derivation and interpretation of the Kelly criterion
The authors apply an information-theoretical argument to a Bernoulli process to find least biased investment strategy consistent with expected exponential growth.
Does reinvesting payouts in plain vanilla exchange-traded funds enhance household portfolio performance?
This study analyzes whether reinvesting payouts in exchange-traded funds that replicate broad and internationally diversified market indexes enhances households’ portfolio performance after transaction costs.
Performance attribution for multifactorial equity portfolios
This paper revisits the cross-sectional approach to the performance analysis of multifactor investment strategies.
A practitioner’s view of the long-term and recent performance of multifactor investment strategies
In this paper the author studies the performance of factor investment strategies from a practitioner’s point of view.
Strong-hand conjecture: agent-based numerical simulation
Following the example of the Kim–Markowitz model, this study adopts similar mechanisms of market operation to perform computer simulations based on agent modeling on the financial market, where shares of one company and a bank account are available …
Corporate equity performance and changes in firm characteristics
The authors' findings affirm prior work illustrating the importance of profitability, size, liquidity, momentum and market returns, although we observe minimal evidence of the importance of investment in capital expenditures.
What drives the January seasonality in the illiquidity premium? Evidence from international stock markets
This study is, to the best of the authors’ knowledge, the first attempt to comprehensively examine and explain the January effect in the illiquidity premium.
Uncertain risk parity
This paper treats covariance as uncertain in order to find a risk parity weighting that does not count on perfectly optimized hedges and is robust to changes in regime.
Quant investing in cluster portfolios
This paper discusses portfolio construction for investing in N given assets, eg, constituents of the Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA) or large cap stocks, based on partitioning the investment universe into clusters.
Portfolio allocation based on expected profit and loss measures
The authors formulate the portfolio allocation problem from a trading point of view, allowing both long and short positions and taking trading and interest rate costs into account.
The price of Bitcoin: GARCH evidence from high-frequency data
This is the first paper that estimates the price determinants of Bitcoin in a generalized autoregressive conditional heteroscedasticity (GARCH) framework using high-frequency data.
The price of liquidity in the reinsurance of fund returns
The authors consider a new type of contract for insuring the returns of hedge funds and aim to extend downside protection to an investment portfolio beyond the first tranche of losses insured by first-loss fee structures, which have become increasingly…
Sign prediction and sign regression
This paper proposes an approach whereby the loss function regularizes the errors in prediction in different ways.
Realized profits on the Stationary Offshore Ocean Economy: an analysis
This paper analyzes the recent financial performance of the publicly traded companies that employ stationary structures on the open ocean using a comprehensive Thomson Reuters Eikon search.
What’s so special about time series momentum?
We find that the buy-and-hold (B&H) strategy for the S&P 500 index (^GSPC) for January 1950–April 2019 had a significantly higher return than that produced by time series momentum (TSM). However, TSM was superior in terms of the Sharpe ratio due to its…
Strangle to resuscitate: evidence from India
This study examines the performance of two strangle strategies at different legs to find the best strategy for consistent profit generation when trading on the Indian stock market index Nifty.