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The Profitability of Carry Trade Relative to a Forecasting-Based Strategy - La profittabilità del carry trade comparata ad una strategia basata sulle previsioni

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Six currency combinations are used to study the comparative profitability of carry trade and a forecasting-based strategy. The results show that the forecasting-based strategy outperforms straight carry trade in terms of return and risk-adjusted return. The implication of these results is that forecasting may indeed be useful for currency trading and that carry trade is not as lucrative as it is portrayed to be. Another implication of the results is that the Meese-Rogoff (1983) finding that macroeconomic models of exchange rates cannot outperform the random walk may only be due to the fact that measures of forecasting accuracy, such as the root mean square error, do not take into account the ability of the model to predict the direction of change in the exchange rate. - Vengono utilizzate sei combinazioni di valute per studiare la profittabilità comparata del carry trade e di una strategia basata sulle previsioni. I risultati dimostrano che la strategia basata sulle previsioni supera il carry trade ‘puro’ in termini di profitto e profitto aggiustato per il rischio. Ciò implica che tale sistema può realmente essere utile per il trading di valute e che il carry trade non è così remunerativo come si ritiene. Un’altra implicazione è che i risultati di Meese e Rogoff (1983) circa il fatto che i modelli macroeconomici dei tassi di cambio non sono superiori ai modelli random walk possono essere dovuti soltanto al fatto che le misure di accuratezza delle previsioni, come l’errore quadratico medio, non tengono conto dell’abilità del modello di prevedere la direzione della variazione del tasso di cambio.

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  • Moosa, Imad A. & Halteh, Pashaar, 2012. "The Profitability of Carry Trade Relative to a Forecasting-Based Strategy - La profittabilità del carry trade comparata ad una strategia basata sulle previsioni," Economia Internazionale / International Economics, Camera di Commercio Industria Artigianato Agricoltura di Genova, vol. 65(4), pages 605-621.
  • Handle: RePEc:ris:ecoint:0671
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    Keywords

    Carry Trade; Uncovered Interest Parity; Exchange Rate Forecasting; Random Walk;
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    • G15 - Financial Economics - - General Financial Markets - - - International Financial Markets

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