Financial returns and efficiency as seen by an artificial technical analyst

Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control

Volumn 25, Issue 1-2, 2001, Pages 213-244

  Skouras, Spyros ^a  

^a EUROPEAN UNIVERSITY INSTITUTE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Artificial agents; C52; C63; D83; Data mining; G; G14; Market efficiency; Technical trading rules

Indexed keywords

EID: 0000376964     PISSN: 01651889     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0165-1889(99)00074-3     Document Type: Article

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