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The Profitability of Technical Analysis during the COVID-19 Market Meltdown

Published:2022-04-20 Issue:5 Volume:15 Page:192
ISSN:1911-8074
Container-title:Journal of Risk and Financial Management
language:en
Short-container-title:JRFM

Author:

Lento Camillo^ORCID,Gradojevic Nikola^ORCID

Abstract

This article explores the profitability of technical trading rules around the COVID-19 pandemic market meltdown for the S&P 500 index, Bitcoin, Comex gold spot, crude oil WTI, and the VIX. Trading rule profits are estimated from January to May 2020, including three sub-periods, on a high-frequency data set. The results reveal that the trading rules can beat the buy-and-hold trading strategy. However, only the Bollinger Bands and trading range break-out rules become profitable after transaction costs during the market crash. Moreover, it is found that composite trading signals effectively improve the profitability of technical analysis around the COVID-19 market crash.

Publisher

MDPI AG

Subject

General Medicine

Link

https://www.mdpi.com/1911-8074/15/5/192/pdf

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