zerotrade1M · Liquidity · Liu (2006)

Days with zero trades

Long minus short decile portfolio, value-weighted, market-adjusted. Quarterly, 1927Q1 to 2024Q4.

Expected return · posterior mean, % per year, averaged over the window
Next quarter
2026Q4
5.51%
95% interval 2.18% to 8.52%
Next year
2026Q4–2027Q3
5.52%
95% interval 2.21% to 8.52%
Next five years
2026Q4–2031Q3
5.56%
95% interval 2.31% to 8.52%

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

+14,585% since 1927Q1 · log scale

Past performance, annualized

Window Mean Vol. Sharpe t
1927Q1–2024Q4 6.17% 14.59% 0.42 4.19
2020Q1–2024Q4 −2.12% 17.03% −0.12 −0.28
2024Q1–2024Q4 −11.65% 13.69% −0.85 −0.85

Forecast Sharpe ratio, annualized

Window Mean 95% interval P(neg)
2026Q4 0.38 0.15 – 0.58 <0.01
2026Q4–2027Q3 0.38 0.15 – 0.59 <0.01
2026Q4–2031Q3 0.37 0.14 – 0.59 <0.01
Category
Liquidity
Form
Continuous
Data
Trading
Sorted on
High minus low
Names per leg
145 long / 140 short median · 69 at the 10th pctile
Original sample
1960–2003