Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/38748 
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Year of Publication: 
2010
Series/Report no.: 
Diskussionsbeitrag No. 446
Publisher: 
Leibniz Universität Hannover, Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, Hannover
Abstract: 
The use of technical analysis by financial market professionals is not well understood. This paper thus analyzes survey evidence from 692 fund managers in five countries, the vast majority of whom rely on technical analysis. At a forecasting horizon of weeks, technical analysis is the most important form of analysis and up to this horizon it is thus more important than fundamental analysis. Technicians are as experienced, as educated, as successful in their career and largely just as overconfident in decision-making as others. However, technical analysis is somewhat more popular in smaller asset management firms. What we find most significant is the relation of technical analysis with the view that prices are heavily determined by psychological influences. Consequently, technicians apply trend-following behavior.
Subjects: 
fund managers
technical analysis
fundamental analysis
personal characteristics
investment behavior
JEL: 
G14
G23
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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