zerotrade12M · Liquidity · Liu (2006)

Days with zero trades

Long minus short decile portfolio, value-weighted, market-adjusted. Quarterly, 1927Q2 to 2024Q4.

Expected return · posterior mean, % per year, averaged over the window
Next quarter
2026Q4
5.10%
95% interval 1.50% to 8.08%
Next year
2026Q4–2027Q3
5.12%
95% interval 1.59% to 8.09%
Next five years
2026Q4–2031Q3
5.21%
95% interval 1.81% to 8.12%

Forecast made 16 Sep 2026, conditioning on this portfolio's OAP returns, which end 2024Q4. The 7 quarters between then and 2026Q4 are unobserved and are integrated out under the model.

Cumulative market-adjusted return

+13,487% since 1927Q2 · log scale

Past performance, annualized

Window Mean Vol. Sharpe t
1927Q2–2024Q4 5.98% 13.61% 0.44 4.34
2020Q1–2024Q4 −2.75% 19.52% −0.14 −0.32
2024Q1–2024Q4 −10.74% 14.34% −0.75 −0.75

Forecast Sharpe ratio, annualized

Window Mean 95% interval P(neg)
2026Q4 0.37 0.11 – 0.60 0.01
2026Q4–2027Q3 0.37 0.11 – 0.60 <0.01
2026Q4–2031Q3 0.37 0.11 – 0.60 <0.01
Category
Liquidity
Form
Continuous
Data
Trading
Sorted on
High minus low
Names per leg
148 long / 148 short median · 69 at the 10th pctile
Original sample
1960–2003