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Evidence-Based
Technical
Analysis
Applying the Scientific
Method and
Statistical Inference
to Trading Signals
DAVID R. ARONSON
Acknowledgments ix
Introduction 1
vii
viii CONTENTS
Notes 477
Index 517
Acknowledgments
T
hough a book is attributed to its author(s), it truly reflects the efforts
of many more people. I wish to acknowledge those individuals
without whom this book would have been impossible or a much
lesser work.
I am most indebted to Dr. Timothy Masters, whom I have had the plea-
sure of knowing for over 10 years. His patient and intelligent guidance
kept me on a solid statistical footing. Tim not only gave me important feed-
back on technical issues but was responsible for coding and running the
ATR rule experiments and the statistical routines used to test the over
6,400 rules examined. Tim also innovated the Monte Carlo permutation
method as an alterative to the patented method of White, called Reality-
Check, for testing the statistical significance of rules discovered by data
mining. Tim has graciously decided to put the method in the public domain
and has allowed it to be published for the first time here.
Also crucial were the programming talents of Stuart Okorofsky and
the database creation by Dr. John Wolberg. I am indebted Dr. Halbert
White, inventor of Reality-Check and for the help of Professor David
Jensen, director of the Knowledge Discovery Lab at the University of
Massachusetts–Amherst.
I also wish to express my appreciation to the following people for re-
viewing and commenting on various chapters. Their feedback was essen-
tial: Charles Neumann, Lance Rembar, Dr. Samuel Aronson, Dennis Katz,
Hayes Martin, George Butler, Dr. John Wolberg, Jay Bono, Dr. Andre Shle-
fier, Dr. John Nofsinger, Doyle Delaney, Ken Byerly, James Kunstler, and
Kenny Rome.
Special thanks to the helpful folks at John Wiley & Sons: Kevin Com-
mins, for seeing the value of a critical appraisal of technical analysis, and
Emilie Herman, for her steady hand in editing the book. Thanks as well to
Michael Lisk and Laura Walsh.
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About the Author
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