Three Insights from Research Papers Related to Carry Trade Strategy

• carry trade profitbility depends on the positive order-flow of sophisticated financial customers (hedge funds and asset managers)
• carry trade strategy is profitable, but it is hard to pick correct trading rules ex-ante
• future alpha of a high interest rate currency carry portfolio increases in a trough in a business cycle and in a state of high market uncertainty

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