The profitability of momentum investing

Journal of Business Finance and Accounting

Volumn 26, Issue 9-10, 1999, Pages 1043-1091

  Liu, Weimin ^a   Strong, Norman ^b   Xu, Xinzhong ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^c LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 29244469223     PISSN: 0306686X     EISSN: 14685957     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1468-5957.00286     Document Type: Conference Paper

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