The Science of Financial Market Trading

Download or read book The Science of Financial Market Trading written by Don K Mak and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2003-03-19 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, Dr Mak views the financial market from a scientific perspective. The book attempts to provide a realistic description of what the market is, and how future research should be developed. The market is a complex phenomenon, and can be forecasted only with errors — if that particular market can be forecasted at all. The book reviews the scientific literatures on the financial market and describes mathematical procedures which demonstrate that some markets are non-random. How the markets are modeled — phenomenologically and from first principle — is explained. It discusses indicators, which are quite objective, rather than price patterns, which are rather subjective. Similarities between indicators in market trading and operators in mathematics are noted, and particularly, between oscillator indicators and derivatives in Calculus. It illustrates why some indicators, e.g., Stochastics, have limited usage. Several new indicators are designed and tested on theoretical waveforms to check their validity and applicability. The indicators have a minimal time lag, which is significant for trading purposes. Common market behaviors like divergences between price and momentum are explained. A skipped convolution technique is introduced to allow traders to pick up market movements at an earlier time. The market is treated as a nonlinear phenomenon. Forecasting of when the market is going to turn is emphasized. Contents:Is the Market Random?Models of the Financial MarketsSignals and IndicatorsTrending IndicatorsOscillator IndicatorsVertex IndicatorsVarious TimeframesWavelet AnalysisOther New TechniquesTrading SystemsFinancial Markets are Complex Readership: Investors, traders and undergraduate students of finance. Keywords:Trading;Complexity;Financial Market;Digital Signal ProcessingReviews:“… chapters of the book are devoted to signals and indicators that can model differences in successive price values, market tops and bottoms and other market's specific features. Several new indicators are designed. They are tested on theoretical wave forms before being applied on real market data. It is explained why certain market movements follow certain indicator response. Divergences between price and certain indicator responses are interpreted … Computer programs of the new indicators are included.”Zentralblatt MATH “The Science of Financial Market Trading by Don K Mak is an advanced level book that addresses several methodologies related to technical analysis in trading. The audience for the book may include (1) Institutional investment analysts with graduate level academic background, (2) Fund managers, who use many external sources for trading, (3) Graduate students in the field of finance and financial economics who want to find a career in financial market trading, and (4) PhD students who want to research in technical analysis … The book is written to draw audiences from both practitioners and academics and manages to keep the readers away from too much mathematical derivations. However, mathematical derivations are left in the Appendix for those who are interested in understanding the details … the book is well written from the beginning to the end, and chapters are well developed and well connected.”Journal of Risk and Insurance “The book draws heavily on mathematical modeling, digital information processing methods and mathematical tables to explain the movement of indicators under different conditions. The mathematical derivations and other mathematical techniques performed on these new indicators are useful for readers who want to acheive a deeper understanding of the financial market.”Translated from the Overseas Humanities Literature Wuhan University Newsletter