Chapter 1: Fundamental Notions of Technical Analysis -- Chapter 2: Fundamental Analysis versus Technical Analysis -- Chapter 3: Correlations between Securities and Markets -- Chapter 4: Charts Used in Technical Analysis -- Chapter 5: Important graphical elements used in technical analysis --...

We explore the relationship between the returns of 64 dry bulk shipping company stocks’ prices and the main 15 commodities that bulk carriers transport. Using a principal component analysis to reduce the dimensionality of the commodities dataset and a panel estimator, we find that a change in...

We use weekly survey data on short-term and medium-term sentiment of German investors in order to study the causal relationship between investors' mood and subsequent stock price changes. In contrast to extant literature for other countries, a tri-variate vector autoregression for short-run...