As some recent studies have shown empirically, future gold price fluctuations are especially difficult to forecast. Against this background, this study evaluates the forecasting power of three methods that have been applied successfully in a stock market prediction context: 1) technical...

Many private and institutional investors attempt to time the market and generate abnormal returns by periodically switching their portfolio allocations between the stock market and the cash market based on their return predictions. However, most academic studies emphasize that a successful...

We apply a stationary bootstrap approach that enables us to test the value added of rebalancing for stock-bond portfolios using historical data from the United States, the United Kingdom, and Germany. Analyzing the Sharpe ratio, the Omega measure, and the Sortino ratio as simple measures of...