2018
DOI: 10.1186/s40854-018-0110-4
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Timing the market: the economic value of price extremes

Abstract: By decomposing asset returns into potential maximum gain (PMG) and potential maximum loss (PML) with price extremes, this study empirically investigated the relationships between PMG and PML. We found significant asymmetry between PMG and PML. PML significantly contributed to forecasting PMG but not vice versa. We further explored the power of this asymmetry for predicting asset returns and found it could significantly improve asset return predictability in both in-sample and out-of-sample forecasting. Investo… Show more

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“…The denial of weak-form market efficiency in asset markets means the dominance of technical trading in price forecasting (McGoun, 1990). Technical indicators are informative for short-term return forecasting in financial markets (Jegadeesh and Titman, 2001; Xie and Wang, 2018). In cryptocurrencies markets, technical trading rules offer substantially higher risk-adjusted returns than the simple buy-and-hold strategy (Hudson and Urquhart, 2019).…”
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“…The denial of weak-form market efficiency in asset markets means the dominance of technical trading in price forecasting (McGoun, 1990). Technical indicators are informative for short-term return forecasting in financial markets (Jegadeesh and Titman, 2001; Xie and Wang, 2018). In cryptocurrencies markets, technical trading rules offer substantially higher risk-adjusted returns than the simple buy-and-hold strategy (Hudson and Urquhart, 2019).…”
Section: Resultsmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…GTI is another important technical measure that foretells the price movements in financial markets (Xie and Wang, 2018). In our case, this indicator is the 250-day moving average of cryptocoins.…”
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