Managerial Finance: Volume 31 Issue 5

Forward looking UK interest rates: a point and figure chart approach

Ronald L. Giles

The advent of the European single currency and the UK’s decision not to participate in the Euro start‐up has placed the UK interest rate policy in a pivotal position. However, the…

Moving average technical trading strategies for currencies of emerging economies

Parvez Ahmed, Kristine Beck, Elizabeth Goldreyer

This paper studies the efficacy of using moving average technical trading rules with currencies of emerging economies. If technical trading rules are successful, they can become a…

Should investments professors join the “crowd”

Frank R. Flanegin, Denis P. Rudd

Just like the market which has its bulls and its bears, investments has its fundamentalists crowd and its technicians crowd. The academic finance profession must wake up and…

Catastrophe theory and technical analysis applied to a Cal Tech experiment on irrational exuberance

Henry O. Pruden

A Catastrophe Theory Model modified for the explanation of the evolution/revolution of behavior in the securities market can be classified in the realm of behavioral finance. An…

Trading currencies using moving averages – trend following versus contrarian strategies

Julie R. Dahlquist

Moving average trading strategies are examined for trading ten major currencies during the 1997‐2001 time period. Both a traditional trend‐following moving average cross over…