How rewarding is technical analysis? Evidence from Singapore stock market

Applied Financial Economics

Volumn 13, Issue 7, 2003, Pages 543-551

  Wong, Wing Keung ^a   Manzur, Meher ^b   Chew, Boon Kiat ^c  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^b CURTIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c EFG Private Bank SA   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STOCK MARKET;

SINGAPORE;

EID: 0042816476     PISSN: 09603107     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/0960310022000020906     Document Type: Article

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