An analysis of trading strategies in eleven European stock markets

Authors: Fifield, Suzanne; Power, David; Donald Sinclair, C.

Source: The European Journal of Finance, Volume 11, Number 6, Number 6/December 2005 , pp. 531-548(18)

Publisher: Routledge, part of the Taylor & Francis Group

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Abstract:

In recent years, the validity of the weak form efficient market hypothesis (EMH) has been called into question as several studies have uncovered evidence that technical trading rules have predictive ability with respect to both developed and emerging stock market indices. This study analyses the forecasting power of 2 of the most popular trading rules using index data for a selection of 11 European stock markets over the January 1991 to December 2000 period. The findings indicate that the emerging markets included in this paper are informationally inefficient; these markets displayed some degree of predictability in their share returns, although the developed markets did not. Furthermore, the results point to large differences in the performance of the rules examined; while small size filters consistently outperformed the buy-and-hold strategy in the emerging markets examined even after the consideration of transaction costs, the performance of the moving average rules was erratic and varied dramatically from market to market.

Keywords: Trading rules; emerging markets; market efficiency

Document Type: Research article

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/1351847042000304099

Affiliations: 1: University of Dundee, Scotland, UK

Publication date: 2005-12-01

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