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Timing is everything: an evaluation and comparison of market timing strategies

Timing is everything: an evaluation and comparison of market timing strategies
Timing is everything: an evaluation and comparison of market timing strategies
Following early failures, more recent empirical evidence has suggested that timing entries to and exits from equity markets may be feasible. A number of approaches to this most basic form of dynamic asset allocation are available, but which works best? This study investigates the relative profitability of several different methodologies using a very long dataset on the S&P 500. In order to overcome the accusations of data snooping and arbitrary parameter choice that beset much previous work in this area, we carefully consider whether the rule performance is sensitive to the specified user-adjustable parameters. We find that all but one of the approaches are able to beat a buy-and-hold equities strategy in risk-adjusted terms, although a strategy based on the difference between the earnings-price ratio and short term Treasury yields works best
market timing rules, speculative bubbles, dynamic asset allocation, S&P500, stock index returns
Social Science Research Network
Brooks, Chris
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Katsaris, Apostolos
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Persand, Gita
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Brooks, Chris
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Katsaris, Apostolos
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Persand, Gita
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Brooks, Chris, Katsaris, Apostolos and Persand, Gita (1970) Timing is everything: an evaluation and comparison of market timing strategies Social Science Research Network

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Abstract

Following early failures, more recent empirical evidence has suggested that timing entries to and exits from equity markets may be feasible. A number of approaches to this most basic form of dynamic asset allocation are available, but which works best? This study investigates the relative profitability of several different methodologies using a very long dataset on the S&P 500. In order to overcome the accusations of data snooping and arbitrary parameter choice that beset much previous work in this area, we carefully consider whether the rule performance is sensitive to the specified user-adjustable parameters. We find that all but one of the approaches are able to beat a buy-and-hold equities strategy in risk-adjusted terms, although a strategy based on the difference between the earnings-price ratio and short term Treasury yields works best

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Published date: 1 January 1970
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Keywords: market timing rules, speculative bubbles, dynamic asset allocation, S&P500, stock index returns

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Local EPrints ID: 37289
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/37289
PURE UUID: badb709d-94c5-40a7-a2d0-5ca5bf9ed0d8

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Date deposited: 11 Jul 2006
Last modified: 07 Dec 2023 17:55

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Author: Chris Brooks
Author: Apostolos Katsaris
Author: Gita Persand

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