Low-Frequency Trading with High-Frequency Measures: Is it Profitable?

60 Pages Posted: 2 Sep 2016 Last revised: 7 Feb 2017

Date Written: February 7, 2017

Abstract

Are high-frequency realized measures profitable for low-frequency investment? I compare the profitability of the same investment strategy against two implementations of its trading signals: one that conventionally uses daily returns (LF) and the other that takes advantage of high-frequency (HF) returns. I use different lengths of the formation period to verify if the HF implementation can leverage the superior amount of observations. Although economic differences favour the HF implementation, the evidence is not statistically significant. Nonetheless, the HF implementation is more robust to the choice of parameters and provides, for the most illiquid stocks, strong economic benefits that are inversely increasing in the length of the formation period.

Keywords: high-frequency, realized betas, bab, performance

JEL Classification: C13, C14, G11, G12

Suggested Citation

Komarov, Oleg, Low-Frequency Trading with High-Frequency Measures: Is it Profitable? (February 7, 2017). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2833450 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2833450

Oleg Komarov (Contact Author)

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