Charts, Noise and Fundamentals: A Study of the London Foreign Exchange Market

Mark Taylor

No 341, CEPR Discussion Papers from C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers

Abstract: Recent research in financial economics has concentrated on the role of non-economic, or non-fundamentalist, speculators in asset markets. This paper presents some empirical evidence concerning the nature and perceived importance of a major form of non-fundamentalist analysis, chartism, in the London foreign exchange market. It analyzes the results of a questionnaire survey on chartism conducted among chief foreign exchange dealers in the London market and data on a panel of chartists' one-week and four-week-ahead exchange rate predictions. The analysis suggests that a majority of chief dealers use at least some chartist input into their trading decisions, especially at the shorter time horizo.

Keywords: Chartism; Exchange Rates; Forecasting; Foreign Exchange (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1989-09
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