Intertwined with the persisting effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on the world economy, the price of WTI crude oil futures became negative on April 20, 2020. This anomalous incident has drawn much attention within the literature. This paper attempts to investigate the origins and specific impacts...

We examine return connectedness between the largest US-based oil and gold ETFs and three major travel & leisure ETFs. Such analysis provides substantial value when understanding how investors can diversify sectoral risk. This research also compares several portfolio strategies to explore the...

The changing patterns of risk aversion of traditional financial assets may follow a non-linear, counter-cyclical, process. However, research in this area has not considered the effects of the rapidly developing cryptocurrency markets. Given the distinct features and growing impact of...

We analyse various technical trading rules in the form of the moving average-oscillator and trading range break-out strategies to specifically test resistance and support levels and their trading performance using high-frequency Bitcoin returns. Overall, our results provide significant support...