Are Monthly Market Returns Predictable?

Review of Asset Pricing Studies, forthcoming

Georgia Tech Scheller College of Business Research Paper No. 2015-12

42 Pages Posted: 11 Jul 2014 Last revised: 15 Dec 2021

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Jussi Keppo

National University of Singapore (NUS) - NUS Business School

Tyler Shumway

University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, The Stephen M. Ross School of Business

Daniel Weagley

Georgia Institute of Technology - Scheller College of Business

Date Written: December 15, 2020

Abstract

We document significant persistence in the market timing performance of active individual investors, suggesting that some investors are skilled at timing. Using data on all trades by active Finnish individual investors over almost 15 years, we also show that the net purchases of skilled versus unskilled investors predict monthly market returns. Our results lend credibility to the view that market returns are predictable, without having to specify which variables active investors use to successfully time the market.

Keywords: Market timing, return predictability, bubbles, market crashes

JEL Classification: G10, G11, G12, G14, G15

Suggested Citation

Keppo, Jussi and Shumway, Tyler and Weagley, Daniel, Are Monthly Market Returns Predictable? (December 15, 2020). Review of Asset Pricing Studies, forthcoming, Georgia Tech Scheller College of Business Research Paper No. 2015-12, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2463884 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2463884

Jussi Keppo

National University of Singapore (NUS) - NUS Business School ( email )

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Tyler Shumway

University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, The Stephen M. Ross School of Business ( email )

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Daniel Weagley (Contact Author)

Georgia Institute of Technology - Scheller College of Business ( email )

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Atlanta, GA 30308
United States
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HOME PAGE: http://www.danielweagley.com

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