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Title: Testing the Weak Form Efficiency of Emerging Colombo Stock Exchange (CSE)
Authors: Gunasekara, H.M.A.L.
Keywords: Colombo Stock Exchange
ASPI
weak form efficiency
technical analysis
predictability
Issue Date: 2015
Publisher: Department of Finance, Faculty of Commerce and Management Studies, University of Kelaniya
Citation: Gunasekara, H.M.A.L. 2015. Testing the Weak Form Efficiency of Emerging Colombo Stock Exchange (CSE). In Proceedings of the 4th Students’ Research Symposium, Department of Finance, Faculty of Commerce and Management Studies, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka. p 02.
Abstract: Efficient Market Hypothesis is a dynamic concept. A market which was not efficient in the past could be efficient today due to the changes occurring in the capital market environment. In an efficient market nobody can predict the returns and enjoy abnormal returns as the prices already reflect all the available information. Efficient Market Hypothesis can be studied under three forms as weak form efficiency, semistrong form efficiency and strong form efficiency. This study attempts to test the weak form efficiency of the Colombo Stock Exchange (CSE) and to determine what strategies to follow to make profits in CSE. In this study, daily market closing index of ASPI of CSE for five years, from June 2010 to June 2015, without adjustments, has selected as the sample. Both parametric tests and non-parametric tests have been used in this study. This study has used, Augmented Dickey-Fuller Unit Root Test, Autocorrelation Test and Runs Test for analyzing data. Augmented Dickey-Fuller Unit Root Test revealed that the ASPI index series in First Difference is stationary. Therefore, the log returns of the ASPI have been considered for the statistical tests in this study. Autocorrelation Test revealed that the return predictability exists in the CSE and confirmed that CSE is not weak form efficient within the sample period. The results of the Runs Test, which is a non-parametric test, are also consistent with the Autocorrelation Test and confirmed that the CSE is not weak form efficient within the sample period. Therefore, Technical Analysis techniques are valid in the CSE and can be utilized to generate excess returns. However, inclusion of transaction cost to the model will provided more opportunity for further studies.
URI: http://repository.kln.ac.lk/handle/123456789/12122
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