Are Random Trading Strategies More Successful than Technical Ones?

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 7, 2013, Pages

  Biondo, Alessio Emanuele ^a   Pluchino, Alessandro ^a,b   Rapisarda, Andrea ^a,b   Helbing, Dirk ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CATANIA   (Italy)

^b INFN SEZIONE DI CATANIA   (Italy)

^c ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMMERCIAL PHENOMENA; COMPETITIVE BEHAVIOR; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; ECONOMIC ASPECT; FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT; MARKETING; MOMETUM STRATEGY; MOVING AVERAGE CONVERGENCE DIVERGENCE STRATEGY; RANDOM STRATEGY; RANDOM TRADING STRATEGY; RELATIVE STRENGTH INDEX STRATEGY; SOCIOECONOMICS; UP AND DOWN PERSISTENCY STRATEGY;

BEHAVIOR; HUMANS; SOCIAL CLASS; SOCIAL MARKETING;

EID: 84880058183     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0068344     Document Type: Article

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