Technical analysis profitability and persistence: A discrete false discovery approach on MSCI indices

Georgios Sermpinis; Arman Hassanniakalager; Charalampos Stasinakis; Ioannis Psaradellis

doi:10.1016/j.intfin.2021.101353

Technical analysis profitability and persistence: A discrete false discovery approach on MSCI indices

Georgios Sermpinis, Arman Hassanniakalager, Charalampos Stasinakis, Ioannis Psaradellis

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We investigate the performance of more than 21,000 technical trading rules on 12 categorical and country-specific markets over the 2004-2015 study period. For this purpose, we apply a discrete false discovery rate approach in more than 240,000 hypotheses and examine the profitability, persistence and robustness of technical analysis. In terms of our results, technical analysis has short-term value and its profitability is mainly driven by short-term momentum. Financial stress seems to have a strong negative effect in technical analysis profitability for US markets and a strong positive effect for emerging and other advanced markets.

Original language	English
Article number	101353
Journal	Journal of International Financial Markets, Institutions and Money
Volume	73
Early online date	12 May 2021
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.intfin.2021.101353
Publication status	Published - 1 Jul 2021

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False Discovery Rate
technical analysis
bootstrap/resampling
trading

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