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This research is trying to examine the existence of the calendar anomalies in the Egyptian Stock Exchange (ESX). Mainly the research methodology is based on regression models estimation, which uses the OLS and GARCH models. The calendar anomalies include day-of- the- week effect, month-of-the-year effect, week-of-the-year effect, tum-of- the-month effect, and tum-of-the year effect. The research data has collected from the Egyptian Stock Exchange Information Centre (ESXIC) reflecting EGX30 index observations, which covers the daily, monthly and annually figures for the period from January first 1998 to December 31, 2014. The first result shows that the market returns are significantly high at Sunday as the starting trading day of the week in ESX, but in the same time it is very low in Monday, and it is little higher at Thursday as the last trading day of the week, providing the existence of the turn-of-the-week effect. The second result shows that the market returns are significantly high on January than any other month, so January effect exists in ESX. The third result shows that on average market returns are significantly high at the turn of the month days rather than any day else during the rest of the month The research results are useful for the stock market authority to do some control on the market concerning the upper — lower price change limits, and it is very important for the investors to decide the timing of buying and selling securities.
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