The Cost of Technical Trading Rules in the Forex Market: A Utility-based Evaluation

Hans Dewachter and Marco Lyrio ()

ERIM Report Series Research in Management from Erasmus Research Institute of Management (ERIM), ERIM is the joint research institute of the Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University and the Erasmus School of Economics (ESE) at Erasmus University Rotterdam

Abstract: We compute the opportunity cost for rational risk averse agents of using technical trading rules in the foreign exchange rate market. Our purpose is to investigate whether these rules can be interpreted as near-rational investment strategies for rational investors. We analyze four di.erent exchange rates and find that the opportunity cost of using chartist rules tends to be prohibitively high. We also present a method to decompose this opportunity cost into parts related to investor's irrationality and misallocation of wealth. The results show that irrationality of chartist beliefs is an important component of the total opportunity cost of using technical trading rules.

Keywords: exchange rate; technical trading rule (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: F31 G15 G3 M M41 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2003-06-19
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