Asynchronous ADRs: Overnight vs Intraday Returns and Trading Strategies

Tim Leung and Jamie Kang

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Abstract: American Depositary Receipts (ADRs) are exchange-traded certificates that rep- resent shares of non-U.S. company securities. They are major financial instruments for investing in foreign companies. Focusing on Asian ADRs in the context of asyn- chronous markets, we present methodologies and results of empirical analysis of their returns. In particular, we dissect their returns into intraday and overnight com- ponents with respect to the U.S. market hours. The return difference between the S&P500 index, traded through the SPDR S&P500 ETF (SPY), and each ADR is found to be a mean-reverting time series, and is fitted to an Ornstein-Uhlenbeck process via maximum-likelihood estimation (MLE). Our empirical observations also lead us to develop and backtest pairs trading strategies to exploit the mean-reverting ADR-SPY spreads. We find consistent positive payoffs when long position in ADR and short position in SPY are simultaneously executed at selected entry and exit levels.

Date: 2016-10
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