Download or read book Market Efficiency and Natural Selection in a Commodity Futures Market written by Guo Ying Luo and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While the literature usually justifies informational efficiency in the context of rationality, this paper shows informational efficiency by applying the evolutionary idea of natural selection. In a dynamic futures market, speculators are assumed to merely act upon their predetermined trading types (buyer or seller), their predetermined fractions of wealth allocated for speculation and their inherent abilities to predict the spot price, reflected in their distributions of prediction errors with respect to the spot price. This paper shows that the proportion of time that the futures price equals the spot price converges to one with probability 1.

Download or read book The Adaptive Markets Hypothesis written by Andrew W. Lo and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2024-02-09 with total page 801 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Adaptive Markets Hypothesis is a formal and systematic exposition. Lo and Zhang develop the mathematical foundations of the simple yet powerful evolutionary model and show that the most fundamental economic behaviours that we take for granted emerge solely through natural selection.

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Download or read book CMT Level I 2016 written by Market Technician's Association and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2016-01-05 with total page 855 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Everything you need to pass Level I of the CMT Program CMT Level I 2016: An Introduction to Technical Analysis fully prepares you to demonstrate the basic competencies of an entry-level analyst, including a working knowledge of terminology and the ability to discuss key concepts and fundamental analytical tools. Covered topics address theory and history, markets, market indicators, construction, confirmation, cycles, selection and decision, system testing, statistical analysis, and ethics. The Level I exam emphasizes trend, chart, and pattern analysis. This cornerstone guidebook of the Chartered Market Technician® Program will provide every advantage to passing Level I.

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