Components of the profitability of technical currency trading

Applied Financial Economics

Volumn 18, Issue 11, 2008, Pages 917-930

  Schulmeister, Stephan ^a  

^a AUSTRIAN INSTITUTE OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH WIFO   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CURRENCY MARKET; EUROPEAN MONETARY UNION; EXCHANGE RATE; MODELING; PROFITABILITY;

EID: 45949094269     PISSN: 09603107     EISSN: 14664305     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09603100701335416     Document Type: Article

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