Title
TSFDC: A trading strategy based on forecasting directional change
Abstract
AbstractSummaryDirectional Change (DC) is a technique to summarize price movements in a financial market. According to the DC concept, data is sampled only when the magnitude of price change is significant according to the investor. In this paper, we develop a contrarian trading strategy named TSFDC. TSFDC is based on a forecasting model which aims to predict the change of the direction of market's trend under the DC context. We examine the profitability, risk and risk‐adjusted return of TSFDC in the FX market using eight currency pairs. The results suggest that TSFDC outperforms the buy and hold approach and another DC‐based trading strategy.
Year
DOI
Venue
2018
10.1002/isaf.1425
Periodicals
Keywords
Field
DocType
Algorithmic trading, directional change, FX trading
Trading strategy,Econometrics,Contrarian,Computer science,Buy and hold,Profitability index,Artificial intelligence,Financial market,Algorithmic trading,Machine learning,Currency
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
25
3
1055-615X
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
1
0.40
10
Authors
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Amer Bakhach110.40
Edward P. K. Tsang289987.77
V. L. Raju Chinthalapati321.42