Scientific studies on technicals

Hi guys,

do you happen to know a research database, where one can look for scientific studies done on technicals? And I am not talking about "your" studies, I would like to have a database with studies done by universities.

cheers

There are tons of research from universities around the world.What are you exactly looking for?Prediction power of technicals etc..

Studies over multiple decades showing what the annual compounded return was from different technical indicators.

You won't find that because a technical indicator doesn't compound any return. It doesn't make money. An indicator has no win rate. Take the 2 MA crossover as an example. The bullish/bearish bias this indicator gives is not a trigger to open a trade. You can choose to open on the cross or wait a pullback or do something else. After the trade is entered you need to close it and the entry signal is no longer relevant at that time. You may wait up for the opposite cross or trail your stop or expect some target level... The price may push beyond your SL and go in the original direction for a very long swing. The size of the swing can be much bigger than the drawdown. This makes it an interesting winning signal except your SL was hit. The indicator was either correct or lucky. If the indicator was right then your SL was wrong. The SL is not defined by the indicator. It's not possible to asset the validity of an indicator without having it included in a trading system. In such a case you no longer estimate the power of the indicator itself but of some system using it. That's why remarks like "MA cross don't work" or pseudo-studies like Bulkowski's Candlestick Patterns ranking are nonsensial to me.

This is a good read :nerd:

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