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Intraweek and intraday trade anomalies: evidence from FOREX market

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  • Saša Popović
  • Andrija Đurović

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In this article, we search for the evidence of intraweek and intraday anomalies on the spot foreign exchange (FOREX) market. Having in mind the international scope of this market, empirical evidence against market efficiency (i.e. market anomalies) will have important consequences for the substantial number of FOREX investors all around the globe. We explore intraweek, intraday and interaction between days and hour trade anomalies on the FOREX market over the period of 10 years using hourly time-series data of Euro and US Dollar (EUR/USD) exchange rate on Swiss FOREX market from 1 January 2004 to 11 January 2014. We compare by analysis of variance test all pairs of mean returns on a daily, hourly and daily/hourly basis. t -Test is used to test whether intraday returns are significantly different from zero. We employ Tukey's honestly significant difference test to explore which intraday pairs of hourly mean returns are significantly greater than zero. We find that intraday and interaction between day and hour anomalies are present in trading EUR/USD on the spot FOREX market over the period of 10 years. The best arbitrage opportunity is evidenced on Fridays, when selling USD and buying EUR at 00:00 and selling EUR and buying USD at 03:00 the same day.

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  • Saša Popović & Andrija Đurović, 2014. "Intraweek and intraday trade anomalies: evidence from FOREX market," Applied Economics, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 46(32), pages 3968-3979, November.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:applec:v:46:y:2014:i:32:p:3968-3979
    DOI: 10.1080/00036846.2014.948676
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