Volume Based Portfolio Strategies [electronic resource] : Analysis of the Relationship between Trading Activity and Expected Returns in the Cross-Section of Swiss Stocks / by Alexander Brändle.
Publisher: Wiesbaden : Gabler, 2010Description: XXVII, 320 p. 136 illus. online resourceContent type:- text
- computer
- online resource
- 9783834987167
- 336 23
- HJ9-9940

Review of Studies on the Relationship between Trading Volume and Stock Returns -- Data and Methodology -- Results: Trading Volume and the Cross-Sectional Variation of Stock Returns -- Results: Time-Stability of Portfolio Returns -- Results: Economic Significance of Volume-Return Relations -- Summary and Conclusions.
Alexander Brändle investigates the relationship between different measures of trading volume and returns in the Swiss stock market. He discovers that stocks with unusual trading volume in a given month experience systematically higher subsequent returns. This abnormal volume effect is particularly strong in uncertain market situations including the 2008 downturn.