Can commodity futures be profitably traded with quantitative market timing strategies?

BR Marshall, RH Cahan, JM Cahan - Journal of Banking & Finance, 2008 - Elsevier
Quantitative market timing strategies are not consistently profitable when applied to 15 major
commodity futures series. We conduct the most comprehensive study of quantitative trading …

Does intraday technical analysis in the US equity market have value?

BR Marshall, RH Cahan, JM Cahan - Journal of Empirical Finance, 2008 - Elsevier
This paper investigates whether intraday technical analysis is profitable in the US equity
market. Surveys of market participants indicate that they place more emphasis on technical …

Are candlestick technical trading strategies profitable in the Japanese equity market?

BR Marshall, MR Young, R Cahan - Review of Quantitative Finance and …, 2008 - Springer
We show that candlestick charting, the oldest known form of technical analysis, is not profitable
in the Japanese equity market over the 1975–2004 period. Candlestick technical analysis…

Is technical analysis profitable on a stock market which has characteristics that suggest it may be inefficient?

BR Marshall, RH Cahan - Research in International Business and Finance, 2005 - Elsevier
This paper considers the returns to technical analysis on the New Zealand stock market. The
small nature, short-selling constraints, lack of analyst coverage, and loose insider trading …

News volume information: Beyond earnings forecasting in a global stock selection model

RA Gillam, JB Guerard Jr, R Cahan - International Journal of Forecasting, 2015 - Elsevier
Earnings forecasting models produce highly statistically significant asset selection, active
equity, and total active returns. We propose a measure of abnormal news volume that controls …

Media content, accounting quality, and liquidity volatility

RH Cahan, SF Cahan, T Lee… - European Accounting …, 2017 - Taylor & Francis
We examine how the linguistic content of news items affects the volatility of a firm's liquidity,
and we consider whether accounting quality moderates the media content-liquidity volatility …

Technical analysis around the world

BR Marshall, RH Cahan, J Cahan - Available at SSRN 1181367, 2010 - papers.ssrn.com
Over 5,000 popular technical trading rules are not consistently profitable in the 49 country
indices that comprise the Morgan Stanley Capital Index once data snooping bias is accounted …

Standing out from the crowd: Measuring crowding in quantitative strategies

R Cahan, Y Luo - Journal of Portfolio Management, 2013 - search.proquest.com
One of the most frequently cited criticisms of quantitative investing has been the charge that
everyone uses the same factors and models. In other words, the popular strategies of the last …

Is the CRISMA technical trading system profitable?

BR Marshall, JM Cahan, RH Cahan - Global Finance Journal, 2006 - Elsevier
The CRISMA technical trading system, which comprises price momentum, volume, and relative
strength components, is among the most publicized evidence against market efficiency. …

[PDF][PDF] Technical analysis around the world: does it ever add value?

BR Marshall, RH Cahan, J Cahan - SSRN eLibrary, 2008 - userfiles.talniri.co.il
Technical analysis is not consistently profitable in the 49 countries that comprise the Morgan
Stanley Capital Index once data snooping bias is accounted for. There is some evidence …