The Evolution of Technical Analysis: Financial Prediction from Babylonian Tablets to Bloomberg TerminalsISBN: 978-1-57660-349-9
Hardcover
224 pages
September 2010
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Introduction vii
Chapter 1: Ancient Roots 1
The Beginnings 2
Ancient Babylon 5
Ancient Greece 11
Ancient Rome 15
Negative Attitudes toward Traders 18
Chapter 2: The Middle Ages and the Renaissance 21
Western Europe 22
Technical Analysis 32
Societal Attitudes 39
Chapter 3: Asia 43
Japan 44
China 49
Chapter 4: The New World 59
Wall Street 60
Societal Attitudes 73
Chapter 5: A New Age for Technical Analysis 81
Dow Theory 82
Relative Strength 91
Market Cycles and Waves 92
Chart Patterns 94
Volume of Trading 96
Market Breadth 99
Nontechnical Analysis 99
Chapter 6: Technical Analysis Today 105
Trends 106
Patterns 109
Strength 111
Cycles 112
Wall Street’s Reinterpretation of Technical Analysis 114
Chapter 7: A Brief History of Randomness and Efficient Markets 131
Prices As Objects of Study 134
The Emergence of Efficient Markets 137
What is Random? 141
Chapter 8: Academic Approaches to Technical Analysis 149
Theoretical Underpinnings 150
Empirical Evaluation 151
Adaptive Markets and Technical Analysis 161
Notes 167
Bibliography 191
Acknowledgments 199
About the Authors 203
Index 205
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