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Noise Trader Sentiment and Futures Price Behavior: An Empirical Investigation

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  • Sanders, Dwight R.
  • Irwin, Scott H.

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The noise trader sentiment model of DeLong, Shleifer, Summers, and Waldman (1990a) is applied to futures markets. The theoretical results predict that overly optimistic (pessimistic) noise traders result in market prices that are greater (less) than fundamental value. Thus, returns can be predicted using the level of noise trader sentiment. The null rational expectations hypothesis is tested against the noise trader alternative using a commercial market sentiment index as a proxy for noise trader sentiment. Fama-MacBeth cross-sectional regressions test if noise traders create a systematic bias in futures prices. The time-series predictability of futures returns using known sentiment levels is tested in a Cumby-Modest market timing framework and a more general causality specification. The empirical results suggest that noise traders do not create a systematic bias in futures prices, and market returns are not predictable using the level of noise trader sentiment.

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  • Sanders, Dwight R. & Irwin, Scott H., 1997. "Noise Trader Sentiment and Futures Price Behavior: An Empirical Investigation," 1981-1999 Conference Archive 285700, NCR-134/ NCCC-134 Applied Commodity Price Analysis, Forecasting, and Market Risk Management.
    • Handle: RePEc:ags:nc8191:285700
    DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.285700
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