Pairs Trading Profits in Commodity Futures Markets

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Bianchi, Robert
Drew, Michael
Zhu, Roger
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Philip Gray and Vidhan Goyal

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2009
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This study employs a pairs trading investment strategy on daily commodity futures returns. The study reveals that pairs trading in similarly related commodity futures earns statistically significant excess returns with commensurate volatility. The excess returns from pairs trading in commodity futures are unrelated to conventional market risk factors and they are not associated with classic contrarian investing. The evidence of pairs trading profits in commodity futures supports the view that these profits reflect compensation to arbitrageurs for enforcing the law of one price in similarly related markets to ensure market efficiency.

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Asian Finance Association International Conference 2009

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© The Author(s) 2009. The attached file is reproduced here in accordance with the copyright policy of the publisher. For information about this conference please refer to the conference’s website or contact the authors.

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