The Weekend Effect: A Trading Robot and Fractional Integration Analysis

20 Pages Posted: 9 Jul 2014

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Guglielmo Maria Caporale

Brunel University London - Department of Economics and Finance; London South Bank University; CESifo (Center for Economic Studies and Ifo Institute); German Institute for Economic Research (DIW Berlin)

Luis A. Gil-Alana

University of Navarra - Department of Economics

Alex Plastun

Sumy State University

Inna Makarenko

National Bank of Ukraine - Ukrainian Academy of Banking of the National Bank of Ukraine

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Date Written: June 25, 2014

Abstract

This paper provides some new empirical evidence on the weekend effect, one of the most recognized anomalies in financial markets. Two different methods are used: (i) a trading robot approach to examine whether or not there is such an anomaly giving rise to exploitable profit opportunities by replicating the actions of traders; (ii) a fractional integration technique for the estimation of the (fractional) integration parameter d. The results suggest that trading strategies aimed at exploiting the weekend effect can generate extra profits but only in a minority of cases in the gold and stock markets, whist they appear to be profitable in most cases in the FOREX. Further, the lowest orders of integration are generally found on Mondays, which can be seen as additional evidence for a weekend effect.

Keywords: efficient market hypothesis, weekend effect, trading strategy

JEL Classification: G120, C630

Suggested Citation

Caporale, Guglielmo Maria and Gil-Alana, Luis A. and Plastun, Alex and Makarenko, Inna, The Weekend Effect: A Trading Robot and Fractional Integration Analysis (June 25, 2014). CESifo Working Paper Series No. 4849, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2463560 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2463560

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