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Market Timing Investment Methods on the Budapest Stock Exchange

Nagy, Attila Zoltán (2024) Market Timing Investment Methods on the Budapest Stock Exchange. FINANCIAL AND ECONOMIC REVIEW, 23 (2). pp. 105-130. ISSN 2415-9271 (print); 2415-928X (online)

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Abstract

A large body of literature confirms that simple investment methods based on timing can outperform and thus be an alternative to traditional investment strategies. The study tests this hypothesis on the Budapest Stock Exchange stock index: a simple timing strategy using 4,619 moving averages was tested on 554,935 trades over the period from 1998 to 2022. The study finds that a wide range of the 4,619 variants performed well on in-sample data, but most could not achieve outperformance out of sample. In some cases, overfitting cannot be ruled out, nor can the effect of randomness due to the low number of cases. The robust variant selected on the in-sample data outperforms out of sample and over the full period at trading costs. However, at a one per cent significance level the Monte Carlo simulation of this variant does not allow the null hypothesis to be rejected, i.e. it cannot be ruled out that randomness or market noise caused the results.

Item Type: Article
Uncontrolled Keywords: timing, technical analysis, stock markets, BUX index
Subjects: H Social Sciences / társadalomtudományok > HG Finance / pénzügy > HG4 Stock market, exchange / tőzsde
SWORD Depositor: MTMT SWORD
Depositing User: MTMT SWORD
Date Deposited: 02 Jul 2024 08:06
Last Modified: 02 Jul 2024 08:06
URI: https://real.mtak.hu/id/eprint/199013

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