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Record Nr.

UNINA9910830560003321

Autore

Aronson David R. <1945->

Titolo

Evidence-based technical analysis : applying the scientific method and statistical inference to trading signals / / David R. Aronson

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Hoboken, New Jersey : , : John Wiley & Sons, Inc., , 2007

©2007

ISBN

0-470-07976-2

1-118-16058-4

1-118-26831-8

Edizione

[1st edition]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (840 p.)

Collana

Wiley Trading

Disciplina

332.63/2042

332.632042

Soggetti

Investment analysis

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Contents; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Acknowledgments; About the Author; Introduction; Part I: Methodological, Psychological, Philosophical, and Statistical Foundations; Chapter 1: Objective Rules and Their Evaluation; The Great Divide: Objective Versus Subjective Technical Analysis; TA Rules; Traditional Rules and Inverse Rules; The Use of Benchmarks in Rule Evaluation; Other Details: The Look-Ahead Bias and Trading Costs; Chapter 2: The Illusory Validity of Subjective Technical Analysis; Subjective TA is Not Legitimate Knowledge

A Personal Anecdote: First A True TA Believer, Then A SkepticThe Mind: A Natural Pattern Finder; The Epidemic of Weird Beliefs; Cognitive Psychology: Heuristics, Biases, and Illusions; Human Information Processing Limitations; Too Dang Certain: The Overconfidence BIAS; Second-Hand Information BIAS: The Power of A Good Story; Confirmation BIAS: How Existing Beliefs Filter Experience and Survive Contradicting Evidence; Illusory Correlations; Misplaced Faith in Chart Analysis; The Intuitive Judgment and The Role of Heuristics

The Representativeness Heuristic and The Illusion Trends and Patterns in Charts: Real and FakeThe Antidote To Illusory Knowledge: The Scientific Method; Chapter 3: The Scientific Method and Technical



Analysis; The Most Important Knowledge of All: A Method to Get More; The Legacy of Greek Science: A Mixed Blessing; The Birth of The Scientific Revolution; Faith in Objective Reality and Objective Observations; The Nature of Scientific Knowledge; The Role of Logic In Science; The Philosophy of Science; The End Result: The Hypothetico-Deductive Method

Rigorous and Critical Analysis of Observed ResultsSummary of Key Aspects of The Scientific Method; If TA Were to Adopt The Scientific Method; Objectification of Subjective TA: An Example; Subsets of TA; Chapter 4: Statistical Analysis; A Preview of Statistical Reasoning; The Need for Rigorous Statistical Analysis; An Example of Sampling and Statistical Inference; Probability Experiments and Random Variables; Statistical Theory; Descriptive Statistics; Probability; Probability Distributions of Random Variables

Relationship Between Probability and Fractional Area of The Probability DistributionThe Sampling Distribution: The Most Important Concept in Statistical Inference; Deriving The Sampling Distribution: The Classical Approach; Deriving The Sampling Distribution With The Computer-Intensive Approach; Preview of Next Chapter; Chapter 5: Hypothesis Tests and Confidence Intervals; Two Types of Statistical Inference; Hypothesis Tests Versus Informal Inference; Rationale of The Hypothesis Test; Hypothesis Testing: The Mechanics; Computer-Intensive Methods for Generating The Sampling Distribution

Estimation

Sommario/riassunto

Evidence-Based Technical Analysis examines how you can apply the scientific method, and recently developed statistical tests, to determine the true effectiveness of technical trading signals. Throughout the book, expert David Aronson provides you with comprehensive coverage of this new methodology, which is specifically designed for evaluating the performance of rules/signals that are discovered by data mining.