A Mathematical Analysis of Technical Analysis
A Mathematical Analysis of Technical Analysis. Applied Mathematical Finance, 26(1), 38-68, 2019
29 Pages Posted: 30 Jun 2019
Date Written: February 22, 2019
Abstract
In this paper, we investigate trading strategies based on exponential moving averages (ExpMAs) of an underlying risky asset. We study both logarithmic utility maximization and long-term growth rate maximization problems and find closed-form solutions when the drift of the underlying is modeled by either an Ornstein-Uhlenbeck process or a two-state continuous-time Markov chain. For the case of an Ornstein-Uhlenbeck drift, we carry out several Monte Carlo experiments in order to investigate how the performance of optimal ExpMA strategies is affected by variations in model parameters and by transaction costs.
Keywords: Long-term growth; Continuous-time Markov chain; Moving average; Optimal investment; Ornstein-Uhlenbeck process; Partial information; Simulation; Utility maximization
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