Bajgrowicz, Pierre; Scaillet, Olivier - 2009 - This version: Sept. 2009
We revisit the apparent historical success of technical trading rules on daily prices of the DJIA index from 1897 to 2011, and use the False Discovery Rate as a new approach to data snooping. The advantage of the FDR over existing methods is that it selects more outperforming rules which allows...