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Is technical analysis in the foreign exchange market profitable? a genetic programming approach
Christopher Neely (
[email protected]),
Paul A. Weller and
Robert Dittmar
No 1996-006,
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Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis
Abstract: Using genetic programming techniques to find technical trading rules, we find strong evidence of economically significant out-of-sample excess returns to those rules for each of six exchange rates, over the period 1981-1995. Further, when the dollar/deutschemark rules are allowed to determine trades in the other markets, there is a significant improvement in performance in all cases, except for the deutschemark/yen. Betas calculated for the returns according to various benchmark portfolios provide no evidence that the returns to these rules are compensation for bearing systematic risk. Bootstrapping results on the dollar/deutschemark indicate that the trading rules are detecting patterns in the data that are not captured by standard statistical models.
Keywords: Programming (Mathematics);
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Date: 1997
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Published in Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, December 1997
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