The predictive ability and profitability of technical trading rules: Does company size matter?

Economics Letters

Volumn 86, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 21-27

  Bokhari, Jawaad ^a   Cai, Charlie ^b   Hudson, Robert ^b   Keasey, Kevin ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Company size; Individual stocks; Technical trading rules

Indexed keywords

EID: 10944241050     PISSN: 01651765     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.econlet.2004.03.037     Document Type: Article

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