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What Andrew W. Lo and A. Craig MacKinlay impressively do . . . [is look] for hard statistical evidence of predictable patterns in stock prices. . . . Here they marshal the most sophisticated techniques of financial theory to show that the market is not completely random after all.
(Jim Holt Wall Street Journal )
With all its equations, this book is going to turn out to be a classic text in the theory of finance. But it is also one for practitioners.
(Diane Coyle The Independent )
Where are today's exploitable anomalies? Lo and MacKinlay argue that fast computers, chewing on newly available, tick-by-tick feeds of market-transaction data, can detect regularities in stock prices that would have been invisible as recently as five years ago. One example: 'clientele bias,' in which certain stocks are popular with investors who have certain trading styles. A case in point that doesn't take a supercomputer to detect, is day traders' current enthusiasm for Internet stocks. Lo says that day traders tend to overreact to news--whether that news is positive or negative--so it should be possible to profit by taking the opposite side of their trades.
(Peter Coy Business Week )
(Jim Holt Wall Street Journal )
With all its equations, this book is going to turn out to be a classic text in the theory of finance. But it is also one for practitioners.
(Diane Coyle The Independent )
Where are today's exploitable anomalies? Lo and MacKinlay argue that fast computers, chewing on newly available, tick-by-tick feeds of market-transaction data, can detect regularities in stock prices that would have been invisible as recently as five years ago. One example: 'clientele bias,' in which certain stocks are popular with investors who have certain trading styles. A case in point that doesn't take a supercomputer to detect, is day traders' current enthusiasm for Internet stocks. Lo says that day traders tend to overreact to news--whether that news is positive or negative--so it should be possible to profit by taking the opposite side of their trades.
(Peter Coy Business Week )
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This provocative collection of essays provides careful empirical analyses of the major anomalies that have appeared in financial markets in the thirty-five years since Paul Cootner's influential Random Character of Stock Market Prices. It provides convincing evidence against the random walk as applied to stock markets, and at the same time warns us of the dangers of finding spurious anomalies. It is a worthy successor to Cootner's classic.
(Michael Brennan, University of California, Los Angeles )
(Michael Brennan, University of California, Los Angeles )
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SINCE KEYNES' (1936) NOW FAMOUS PRONOUNCEMENT that most investors' decisions "can only be taken as a result of animal spirits-of a spontaneous urge to action rather than inaction, and not as the outcome of a weighted average of benefits multiplied by quantitative probabilities," a great deal of research has been devoted to examining the efficiency of stock market price formation. Read the first page
Front Cover | Copyright | Table of Contents | Excerpt | Index | Back Cover
SINCE KEYNES' (1936) NOW FAMOUS PRONOUNCEMENT that most investors' decisions "can only be taken as a result of animal spirits-of a spontaneous urge to action rather than inaction, and not as the outcome of a weighted average of benefits multiplied by quantitative probabilities," a great deal of research has been devoted to examining the efficiency of stock market price formation. Read the first page
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