Bajgrowicz, Pierre; Scaillet, Olivier - Institut für Schweizerisches Bankwesen <Zürich> - 2008
We revisit the apparent historical success of technical trading rules on daily prices of the Dow Jones index. First, we use the False Discovery Rate as a new approach to data snooping. The advantage of the FDR over existing methods is that it is more powerful and not restricted only to the best...