The FOMC Announcement Drift may be about to join a long line of
stock market anomalies that once discovered, almost immediately go missing.
-- Vijay Singal, J. Gray Ferguson Professor of Finance and Chairperson of the Finance Department Pamplin College of Business of Virginia Tech, and author of Beyond the Random Walk: A Guide to
Stock Market Anomalies and Low - Risk Investing «Gastineau's message is very powerful.
Readers are undoubtedly aware of one or
another stock market anomaly, such as e.g. the frequently observed weakness in stock markets in the summer months, which the well - known saying «sell in May and go away» refers to.
Not exact matches
Twitter is an
anomaly whose value has been somewhat manipulated by investment bankers, a frothy
stock market that's favoring social media
stocks and a sort of desperate investor longing for a return to the good old days of the first dotcom boom.
In their October 2009 paper entitled «Risk Sentiment Index (RSI) and
Market Anomalies», Guy Kaplanski and Haim Levy introduce the Risk Sentiment Index (RSI) as a measure of the residual risk contained in VIX after accounting for the statistical and economic variables most predictive of future stock market volatility (such as previous month actual volatility and
Market Anomalies», Guy Kaplanski and Haim Levy introduce the Risk Sentiment Index (RSI) as a measure of the residual risk contained in VIX after accounting for the statistical and economic variables most predictive of future
stock market volatility (such as previous month actual volatility and
market volatility (such as previous month actual volatility and VIX).
For some analyses, they segregate these
anomalies into four categories: (1) firm event - related (such as
stock issuance); (2)
market (such as momentum); (3) valuation (such as earnings - price ratio); and, (4) fundamental (such as acruals).
One of the great
anomalies of investing: The historical long - term outperformance of certain smart beta or factor - based strategies relative to the broader equity
market (think choosing
stocks based on their valuations, momentum, low volatility or quality metrics such as profitability).
If an investor could use of any of these characteristics to pick
market - beating
stocks they would be called
market anomalies.
Throughout all of these jobs, I was researching investing (usually individual
stocks or
market anomalies) on my free time.
To that end, I built The 8 Rules of Dividend Investing — which combine several different
market anomalies — to help individual investors find the best dividend growth
stocks trading at fair or better prices.
Continuing research has firmly established momentum as an
anomaly that works well within and across nearly all
markets including equities,
stock indices, currencies, commodities, real estate, and fixed income.
Even in a highly liquid
stock market with many transactions and very informed participants, there are price
anomalies that can be acted upon.
Learn how the bet against beta strategy is used by a large hedge fund to profit from a pricing
anomaly in the
stock market caused by high
stock prices.
Why does it matter whether the small -
stock effect, as well as other
market anomalies, can be attributed to greater risk?
The low - volatility
anomaly [Note 1] is the observation that portfolios of low - volatility
stocks have higher risk - adjusted returns than portfolios with high - volatility
stocks in most
markets studied.
So, if you can just show, for example, that the odds of a
stock market crash are far higher in years when the P - E ratio is much higher than average (or for housing crashes the buy - rent, or price - household income ratio), or that the expected risk - adjusted long run return is much lower than average, or other «
anomalies» (anomalous to the EMH) like this, then you can show that the EMH is substantially far from the truth.
My thesis, springing from what I had learned in Dr. Carl Christ's class on financial economics (which in itself was an
anomaly in the political economy department), forced me to analyze the then - fresh literature on event studies on efficient
markets, including the famous paper by Fama, Fisher, Jensen, and Roll on how it was impossible to make money off of
stock market splits.
This pernicious
anomaly causes investors to blindly invest in home
market stocks for a disproportionate percentage (vs. world GDP share, for example) of their portfolio.
A Reality Check on
Stock -
Market «Anomalies» Most of the supposed market anomalies academics have identified don't exist, or are too small to m
Market «
Anomalies» Most of the supposed market anomalies academics have identified don't exist, or are too small t
Anomalies» Most of the supposed
market anomalies academics have identified don't exist, or are too small to m
market anomalies academics have identified don't exist, or are too small t
anomalies academics have identified don't exist, or are too small to matter.