TY - JOUR
T1 - Market efficiency and the returns to technical analysis
AU - Bessembinder, Hendrik
AU - Chan, Kalok
N1 - Copyright:
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PY - 1998
Y1 - 1998
N2 - We further investigate and provide interpretation for the intriguing Brock, Lakonishok, and LeBaron (1992) finding that simple forms of technical analysis contain significant forecast power for US equity index returns. We document that the forecast ability is partially, but not solely, attributable to return measurement errors arising from nonsynchronous trading. We argue that the evidence supporting technical forecast power need not be inconsistent with market efficiency. "Break-even" one-way trading costs are computed to be 0.39% for the full sample and 0.22% since 1975, which are small compared to recent estimates of actual trading costs.
AB - We further investigate and provide interpretation for the intriguing Brock, Lakonishok, and LeBaron (1992) finding that simple forms of technical analysis contain significant forecast power for US equity index returns. We document that the forecast ability is partially, but not solely, attributable to return measurement errors arising from nonsynchronous trading. We argue that the evidence supporting technical forecast power need not be inconsistent with market efficiency. "Break-even" one-way trading costs are computed to be 0.39% for the full sample and 0.22% since 1975, which are small compared to recent estimates of actual trading costs.
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U2 - 10.2307/3666289
DO - 10.2307/3666289
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:0032216961
SN - 0046-3892
VL - 27
SP - 5
EP - 17
JO - Financial Management
JF - Financial Management
IS - 2
ER -