Market Timing with Moving Averages The Anatomy and Performance of Tr

This book provides a comprehensive guide to market timing using moving averages. Part I explores the foundations of market timing rules, presenting a methodology for examining how the value of a trading indicator is computed. Using this methodology t

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VALERIY ZAKAMULIN

New Developments in Quantitative Trading and Investment

Series editors Christian Dunis Liverpool John Moores University Liverpool, UK Hans-Jörg von Mettenheim Leibniz Universität Hannover Hannover, Germany Frank McGroarty University of Southampton Southampton, UK

More information about this series at http://www.springer.com/series/14750

Valeriy Zakamulin

Market Timing with Moving Averages The Anatomy and Performance of Trading Rules

Valeriy Zakamulin School of Business and Law University of Agder Kristiansand Norway

New Developments in Quantitative Trading and Investment ISBN 978-3-319-60969-0 ISBN 978-3-319-60970-6 DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-60970-6

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I dedicate this book to all technical traders, especially newcomers to the market, and hope that it helps them better understand the tools at their disposal.

Preface

Motivation for Writing this Book Over the course of the last decade, the author of this book has been interested in the stock return predictability which is one of the most controversial topics in financial research. The existence of stock return predictability is of great interest to both practitioners and academics alike. Traditionally, in finance literature the stock returns were predicted using various financial ratios and macroeconomic variables. Unfortunately, the evidence of stock return predictability by either financial ratios or macroeconomic variables is unconvincing. Technical ana