Technical Analysis as a Method of Risk Management

While the academic world is still discussing if charting works or if it is more or less something like "Voodoo finance", the practical orientated world has been using technical analysis for decades. One argument of practitioners is, that technical analysis is useful to "disciplinate" the trader and consequently is a method of risk reduction. We discuss this argument theoretically and empirically and show, that it is not always right.

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Year of publication:	2003
Authors:	Dorfleitner, Gregor ; Klein, Christian
Publisher:	Augsburg : Universität Augsburg, Institut für Statistik und Mathematische Wirtschaftstheorie
Subject:	Wertpapieranalyse \| Börsenkurs \| Volatilität \| Risikomanagement \| Schätzung \| Welt

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Series:	Arbeitspapiere zur mathematischen Wirtschaftsforschung ; 184
Type of publication:	Book / Working Paper
Type of publication (narrower categories):	Working Paper
Language:	English
Other identifiers:	379950073 [GVK] hdl:10419/22819 [Handle] RePEc:zbw:augamw:184 [RePEc]
Source:	EconStor

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