This paper is the first to measure the profitability of day traders across volatility states. We apply a popular day trading strategy, the Opening Range Breakout strategy (ORB), on long time series of crude oil and S&P 500 futures contracts. Average returns are then calculated for each...

Is it possible to beat the market by mechanical trading rules based on historical and publicly known information? Such rules have long been used by investors and in this paper, we test the success rate of trades and profitability of the Open Range Breakout (ORB) strategy. An investor that trades...

Is it possible to beat the market by mechanical trading rules based on historical and publicly known information? Such rules have long been used by investors and in this paper, we test the success rate of trades and profitability of the Open Range Breakout (ORB) strategy. An investor that trades...