Identify the periods of significant profitable carry trade opportunities that existed during your sample and calculate the carry trade profits that would have resulted.
Carry trade profits can be represented as a dollar (or other currency) terms, assuming that investors invest a certain amount of money at the beginning of the sample period.
Document the market conditions during these periods (e.g., measures of system stability – exchange rate volatility, stock market volatility, etc.). Check newspaper reports (using Factiva via library’s web access) to see whether actual carry trades during the identified periods have been reported.
In addition, identify the periods when carry trade strategies deliver significant negative returns.
To what extent market conditions differ from the period when carry trade strategies deliver positive returns?
Requirements: 500 words