Anomalous Patterns of Market Movements: Detecting a Different Kind of Market Inefficiency
26 Pages Posted: 15 May 2010
Date Written: May 12, 2010
Abstract
This paper uses the Overlapping Serial Test (OS-test) to detect anomalous patterns in the distribution of sequences of stock market movements up and down. Our results show that most stock markets exhibit idiosyncratic recurrent patterns, contrary to the efficient market hypothesis. We also use Principal Components Analysis to demonstrate that the kind of inefficiency detected by the OS-test is different from the inefficiencies detected by short memory tests, or by long memory tests commonly used in the literature. This method of analysis could be used by investors to help derive trading strategies.
Keywords: Price Indices, Patterns, Market efficiency, Overlapping Serial Test, Random Number Generators, EMH
JEL Classification: G14, G15
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