Long-Term Price Overreactions: Are Markets Inefficient?

27 Pages Posted: 22 Jan 2015

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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

Date Written: January 2015

Abstract

This paper examines long-term price overreactions in various financial markets (commodities, US stock market and FOREX). First, t-tests are carried out for overreactions as a statistical phenomenon. Second, a trading robot approach is applied to test the profitability of two alternative strategies, one based on the classical overreaction anomaly, the other on a so-called “inertia anomaly”. Both weekly and monthly data are used. Evidence of anomalies is found predominantly in the case of weekly data. In the majority of cases strategies based on overreaction anomalies are not profitable, and therefore the latter cannot be seen as inconsistent with the EMH.

Keywords: Efficient Market Hypothesis, anomaly, overreaction hypothesis, abnormal returns, contrarian strategy, trading strategy, trading robot, t-test

JEL Classification: G12, G17, C63

Suggested Citation

Caporale, Guglielmo Maria and Gil-Alana, Luis A. and Plastun, Alex, Long-Term Price Overreactions: Are Markets Inefficient? (January 2015). DIW Berlin Discussion Paper No. 1444, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2553187 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2553187

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Sumy State University ( email )

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