Technical Analysis -- Preprocessing Procedures -- Assessing the Predictive Performance of Technical Analysis -- Horizontal Patterns -- Zigzag Patterns -- Circular Patterns -- Technical Indicators -- A Statistical Assessment -- Dynamic Time Warping for Pattern Recognition.

This book helps readers understand the widely documented distortion in the portfolio choice of individual investors toward proximate firms - the proximity bias phenomenon. First, it recapitulates the fundamentals of modern portfolio theory. It then goes on to describe and demonstrate different...

This book is a guide to asset and risk management from a practical point of view. It is centered around two questions triggered by the global events on the stock markets since the middle of the last decade: - Why do crashes happen when in theory they should not? - How do investors deal with such...