How markets really work : a quantitative guide to stock market behavior /

For years, traders and investors have been using unproven assumptions about popular patterns such as breakouts, momentum, new highs, new lows, market breadth, put/call ratios and more without knowing if there is a statistical edge.Common wisdom holds that the stock markets are ever changing. But, as...

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Main Authors: Connors, Laurence A.
Group Author: Alvarez, Cesar, 1967-
Published:
Literature type: eBook
Language: English
Edition: Second edition.
Series: Bloomberg financial series ; 158.
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Online Access: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/book/10.1002/9781118531594
Summary: For years, traders and investors have been using unproven assumptions about popular patterns such as breakouts, momentum, new highs, new lows, market breadth, put/call ratios and more without knowing if there is a statistical edge.Common wisdom holds that the stock markets are ever changing. But, as it turns out, common wisdom can be wrong. Offering a comprehensive look back at the way the markets have acted over the last two decades, How Markets Really Work: A Quantitative Guide to Stock Market Behavior, Second Edition shows that nothing has changed, that the markets behave the same way today.
Item Description: Includes index.
Carrier Form: 1 online resource.
ISBN: 9781118239452 (epub)
1118239458 (epub)
9781118226285 (adobe pdf)
1118226283 (adobe pdf)
9781118264201 ( mobipocket)
1118264207 ( mobipocket)
9781118531594 (electronic bk.)
1118531590 (electronic bk.)
Index Number: HG4910
CLC: F837.125
Contents: How Markets Really Work: A Quantitative Guide to Stock Market Behavior; Contents; Disclaimer; Table Explanation; Acknowledgments; Chapter 1: Market Edges; Chapter 2: Short-Term Highs and Short-Term Lows; Chapter 3: Higher Highs and Lower Lows; Chapter 4: Up Days in a Row versus Down Days in a Row; Chapter 5: Market Breadth; Chapter 6: Volume; Chapter 7: Large Moves; Chapter 8: New 52-Week Highs, New 52-Week Lows; Chapter 9: Put/Call Ratio; Chapter 10: Volatility Index (VIX); Chapter 11: The Two-Period RSI Indicator; Chapter 12: Historical Volatility.