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Using daily closing prices, you find that large-cap returns predict next-day small-cap returns. What should you suspect before calling it a signal?
- AThat the effect is too strong to be real, so it must reflect a coding error
- BStale small-cap closing prices
- CThat small caps are more volatile, which always creates predictability
- DThat the correlation matrix is not positive definite
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