The Groundhog Day stock market anomaly

Stock Market Anomaly: Day of the Week Effect in Dhaka Stock Exchange

This paper examines the presence of day of the week effect anomaly in Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE). Several hypotheses have been formulated; dummy variable regression and the GARCH (1, 1) model were used in the study. The result indicates that Sunday and Monday returns are negative and only positive returns on Thursdays are statistically significant. Result also reveals that the mean daily return...

Indigenous health: radical hope or groundhog day?

The Day of the Week Effect on Stock Market Volatility

This study tests the presence of the day of the week effect on stock market volatility by using the S&P 500 market index during the period of January 1973 and October 1997. The findings show that the day of the week effect is present in both volatility and return equations. While the highest and lowest returns are observed on Wednesday and Monday, the highest and the lowest volatility are obser...

Enhancing quantitative intra-day stock return prediction by integrating both market news and stock prices information

The interaction between stock price process and market news has been widely analyzed by investors on different markets. Previous works, however, focus either on market news purely as exogenous factors that tend to lead price process or on the analysis of how past stock price process can affect future stock returns. To take a step forward, we quantitatively integrate information from both market...

Stock Market Seasonality: A Study of the Indian Stock Market

1.0 Introduction Seasonal variations in production and sales are a well known fact in business. Seasonality refers to regular and repetitive fluctuation in a time series which occurs periodically over a span of less than a year. The main cause of seasonal variations in time series data is the change in climate. For example, sales of woolen clothes generally increase in winter season. Besides th...