Article(electronic)March 10, 2017

Testing the Random Walk Theory in the Nigerian Stock Market

In: IRA-international journal of management & social sciences, Volume 6, Issue 3, p. 500

Ajekwe, Clement C. M.; Ibiamke, Adzor; Haruna, Habila Abel

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Abstract

<div><p><em>This study tests the random walk theory in the Nigerian stock market by analyzing whether stock returns follow a random walk distribution. </em><em>The study employs the daily returns of the Top 20 most performing stocks on the NSE for the period January 1<sup>st</sup> 2010 to December 31<sup>st</sup> 2014. Autocorrelation and runs test</em><em> were employed for hypothesis testing. </em><em>Based on our analysis, we found that the daily stock returns of the 20 most active stocks on the Nigerian stock market are randomly distributed indicating that Nigerian Stock market is informational efficient at the weak form level. </em><em>The implication of the finding is that no one can fool the market consistently for a long time by trading on the basis of past information such as historical stock prices. The study recommends that more efforts should be made to reposition the market to attract more investible funds from domestic and foreign investors.</em></p></div>

Publisher

IRA Academico Research

ISSN: 2455-2267

DOI

10.21013/jmss.v6.n3.p15

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