Do technical trading profits remain in the foreign exchange market? Evidence from 14 currencies

Igor Cialenco and Aris Protopapadakis

Journal of International Financial Markets, Institutions and Money, 2011, vol. 21, issue 2, 176-206

Abstract: We examine the in- and out-of-sample behavior of two popular trading systems, Alexander and Double MA filters, for 14 developed-country currencies using daily data with bid-ask spreads. We find significant in-sample returns in the early periods. But out-of-sample returns are lower and only occasionally significant. We show that a currency risk factor proposed in the literature is systematically related to these returns. We find no support for the hypotheses that falling transactions costs are responsible for declining trading profits or for the Adaptive Market hypothesis. Importantly, we show that algorithms that simulate out-of-sample returns have serious instability difficulties.

Keywords: Technical; rules; Alexander; filter; Double; Moving; Average; Foreign; exchange; market (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2011
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