"Seeing the market": Technical analysis in trading styles

Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour

Volumn 36, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 119-140

  Mayall, Margery ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Financial markets; Share trading; Technical Analysis; Visualizing markets

Indexed keywords

EID: 33745310733     PISSN: 00218308     EISSN: 14685914     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-5914.2006.00300.x     Document Type: Article

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