Day-of-the-week and intraday effects in stock returns
- 1 September 1986
- journal article
- Published by Elsevier BV in Journal of Financial Economics
- Vol. 17 (1), 197-210
- https://doi.org/10.1016/0304-405x(86)90011-5
Abstract
This study examines day-of-the-week effects using hourly values of the Dow Jones Industrial Average. We find that over the 1963–1983 period the weekend effect has sifted from characterizing active trading on Monday to characterizing the non-trading weekend. Over the early part of our sample period negative returns characterize each hour of trading on Monday, while the return from Friday close to Monday open is positive. In the most recent subperiod, Monday average hourly returns after noon are all positive and the weekend effect is due to negative average returns from Friday close to Monday open.Keywords
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