The Profitability of the Momentum Strategies and Their Transaction Costs in the Hong Kong Stock Market

This paper examines the profitability of the momentum trading strategies in Hong Kong over the period 1993 to 2008. We demonstrate that the returns from buying winners outperforms that of short-selling the losers. In particular, short selling losers would suffer a persistent loss across our observed...

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Main Author: Chan, Ka Ho
Format: Dissertation (University of Nottingham only)
Language:English
Published: 2009
Online Access:https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/22858/