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This study explores whether a behavioral approach can enhance the profitability of cross-sectional reversal strategy in the cryptocurrency market. Building on findings from stock and commodity futures markets, we propose a new decomposition method for reversal portfolios, in which the lowest price during the formation period serves as the anchoring point. We find that these reversal portfolios generate higher returns than conventional cross-sectional reversal portfolios. These results hold across different portfolio formation periods, suggesting the presence of heterogeneous investment horizons. Moreover, our cryptocurrency reversal portfolios act as hedges against increases in stock and gold market uncertainty. Finally, we observe that the profitability of the reversal portfolios remains robust when incorporating conservative transaction costs and including the COVID-19 pandemic period.
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