Japanese candlestick has been widely used in investment practice, however its predicting power has not yet been scrutinized in academic literature. This paper investigates the forecasting power of Japanese candlestick augumented by Halloween effect in stock returns. Empirical studies performed...

The predictability of stock market is of great interest to both reseachers and investors. Despite voluminous evidence of in-sample predictability, the out-of-sample predictability of stock returns remains an ongoing debate. In this paper, motivated by both the financial theories and the well...