If returns on some stocks systematically lead or lag those of others, a portfolio strategy that sells "winners" and buys "losers" can produce positive expected returns, even if no stock's returns are negatively autocorrelated as virtually all models of overreaction imply. Using a particular contrarian strategy, the authors show that, despite negative autocorrelation in individual stock returns, weekly portfolio returns are strongly positively autocorrelated and are the result of important cross-autocorrelations. The authors find that the returns of large stocks lead those of smaller stocks, and present evidence against overreaction as the only source of contrarian profits
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Lo, A. W., & MacKinlay, A. C. (1990). When Are Contrarian Profits Due to Stock Market Overreaction? Review of Financial Studies, 3(2), 175–205. https://doi.org/10.1093/rfs/3.2.175
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