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Strategy #0000000132 · Calendar and seasonality

Investor mood and exogenous events
Enter mood-shock units, return sensitivity, asset-return and cost assumptions.

Research has tested whether events unrelated to cash flows, including sports outcomes, weather and daylight, affect investor mood and returns. Results vary by country, sample, event definition and market state, and are vulnerable to multiple testing and ex-post selection. This simulation takes a user-entered mood shock, sensitivity and asset-return scenario; it does not forecast markets.

Beginner-friendlyAbout 8 minutesEvidence and practical analysis

Three ways in

Understand the story. Then inspect the risk.

Start with a familiar situation, check the payoff, then test how the numbers change.

The idea · in two minutes

How does an asset-return scenario change with an exogenous mood shock and an assumed sensitivity?

Research has tested whether events unrelated to cash flows, including sports outcomes, weather and daylight, affect investor mood and returns. Results vary by country, sample, event definition and market state, and are vulnerable to multiple testing and ex-post selection. This simulation takes a user-entered mood shock, sensitivity and asset-return scenario; it does not forecast markets.

Enter mood-shock units, return sensitivity, asset-return and cost assumptions.

No match, weather, daylight or market data are loaded; causal event effects are not estimated.

  • Input assumptionsEnter mood-shock units, return sensitivity, asset-return and cost assumptions.
  • Model outputNo match, weather, daylight or market data are loaded; causal event effects are not estimated.

Illustrative research examples only. They are not live signals or a recommendation.

Variants · same family, different risk levers

Models, contract terms and implementation can change results.

Compare relevant mechanisms and execution assumptions.

Related strategyRelationshipWhat changesNew cost or risk
Base scenarioManual inputsResearch has tested whether events unrelated to cash flows, including sports outcomes, weather and daylight, affect investor mood and returns. Results vary by country, sample, event definition and market state, and are vulnerable to multiple testing and ex-post selection. This simulation takes a user-entered mood shock, sensitivity and asset-return scenario; it does not forecast markets.No match, weather, daylight or market data are loaded; causal event effects are not estimated.
Conservative versionHigher cost/lossStress higher costs, larger losses or lower liquidity.May lower scenario returns.
Validation versionData reviewTest model inputs with consistent contracts and timestamps.Needs licensed, representative data.

No match, weather, daylight or market data are loaded; causal event effects are not estimated.

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References

Primary sources and research used to describe the strategy and its limits.

  1. 01Kamstra, Kramer & Levi (2003), Winter Blues: A SAD Stock Market Cycleresearch