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Record Nr.

UNINA9911020199903321

Autore

Connors Laurence A

Titolo

How markets really work : a quantitative guide to stock market behavior / / Laurence A. Connors, Cesar Alvarez

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Hoboken, New Jersey, : John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2012

ISBN

1-280-59207-9

1-118-53159-0

9786613621900

1-118-22628-3

Edizione

[2nd ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (189 p.)

Collana

Bloomberg financial series ; ; 158

Classificazione

BUS027000

Altri autori (Persone)

AlvarezCesar <1967->

Disciplina

332.64/2

Soggetti

Stock exchanges - United States

Capital market - United States

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di contenuto

How Markets Really Work: A Quantitative Guide to Stock Market Behavior; Contents; Disclaimer; Table Explanation; Acknowledgments; Chapter 1: Market Edges; Chapter 2: Short-Term Highs and Short-Term Lows; Chapter 3: Higher Highs and Lower Lows; Chapter 4: Up Days in a Row versus Down Days in a Row; Chapter 5: Market Breadth; Chapter 6: Volume; Chapter 7: Large Moves; Chapter 8: New 52-Week Highs, New 52-Week Lows; Chapter 9: Put/Call Ratio; Chapter 10: Volatility Index (VIX); Chapter 11: The Two-Period RSI Indicator; Chapter 12: Historical Volatility

Chapter 13: Creating a Sample Strategy from This ResearchChapter 14: Applying the Information in This Book; About the Authors; Index

Sommario/riassunto

For years, traders and investors have been using unproven assumptions about popular patterns such as breakouts, momentum, new highs, new lows, market breadth, put/call ratios and more without knowing if there is a statistical edge. Common wisdom holds that the stock markets are ever changing. But, as it turns out, common wisdom can be wrong. Offering a comprehensive look back at the way the markets have acted over the last two decades, How Markets Really Work: A Quantitative Guide to Stock Market Behavior, Second Edition shows that nothing has



changed, that the markets behave t