The motivation for this paper is to apply a statistical arbitrage technique of pairs trading to high-frequency equity data and compare its profit potential to the standard sampling frequency of daily closing prices. We use a simple trading strategy to evaluate the profit potential of the data...

The motivation for this paper is to show that even a simple strategy based on conditional autocorrelation can give traders an edge. Our simple mean reversion strategy takes the position in a pair consisting of Exchange traded funds (ETFs) or shares based on the normalized previous period's...

The motivation for this paper is to show the usefulness of the information contained in the open-to-close (day) and close-to-open (night) periods compared to the more frequently used close-to-close period. To show this we construct two versions of a contrarian strategy, where the worst...