Duration Dependence, Behavioral Restrictions, and the Market Timing Ability of Commodity Trading Advisors
2017
This paper addresses a potential shortcoming in the work on the market
timing ability of fund managers. We adapt the Henriksson-Merton (1981) test
for market timing by relaxing a behavioral assumption that is implicit in the
use of daily data. To this end, we relax the assumption that managers base
their market timing decisions on daily excess returns. Instead, we use results
from the literature on bull and bear markets and test whether fund managers
can successfully time such trends in financial markets. We make use of a proprietary
dataset of daily Commodity Trading Advisors (CTAs) returns to show
that CTAs, on average, are able to time the bull and bear markets we identify.
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