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Assessing the profitability of intraday opening range breakout strategies

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  • Holmberg, Ulf

    () (Department of Economics, Umeå University)

  • Lönnbark, Carl

    () (Department of Economics, Umeå University)

  • Lundström, Christian

    () (Department of Economics, Umeå University)

Abstract

Is it possible to beat the market by mechanical trading rules based on historical and publicly known information? Such rules have long been used by investors and in this paper, we test the success rate of trades and profitability of the Open Range Breakout (ORB) strategy. An investor that trades on the ORB strategy seeks to identify large intraday price movements and trades only when the price moves beyond some predetermined threshold. We present an ORB strategy based on normally distributed returns to identify such days and find that our ORB trading strategy result in significantly higher returns than zero as well as an increased success rate in relation to a fair game. The characteristics of such an approach over conventional statistical tests is that it involves the joint distribution of Low, High, Open and Close over a given time horizon.

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Paper provided by Umeå University, Department of Economics in its series Umeå Economic Studies with number 845.

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Length: 11 pages
Date of creation: 23 Aug 2012
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Handle: RePEc:hhs:umnees:0845

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