Beating the Market? : A Mathematical Puzzle to Market Efficiency

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Baumann, Michael Heinrich:
Beating the Market? : A Mathematical Puzzle to Market Efficiency.
Universität Bayreuth
Bayreuth , 2017 . - 39 p.

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Project financing:	Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung Hanns-Seidel-Stiftung Promotionsstipendium

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The efficient market hypothesis is highly discussed---supported and criticized---in economic literature. In its weakest form it states that there are no price trends. When weakening the no-trending assumption only a little to arbitrary short and small and fully unknown trends, by use of control techniques it is very easy to construct trading strategies with zero initial investment and positive expected gain. Since even the trend's sign may be unknown, a possible trader does not have to think about predictable patterns etc.\ Even if compared to buy-and-hold strategies and adjusted for risk, the control-based strategies are preferable.

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Item Type:	Preprint, postprint, working paper, discussion paper
Keywords:	Technical Analysis; Efficient Market Hypothesis; Robust Positive Expectation; Simultaneously Long Short Trading; Control-based Trading Strategies
Subject classification:	JEL codes: G11, G14
Institutions of the University:	Faculties > Faculty of Mathematics, Physics und Computer Science > Department of Mathematics > Chair Applied Mathematics (Applied Mathematics) Faculties > Faculty of Law, Business and Economics > Department of Economics > Chair Economics I Profile Fields > Advanced Fields > Nonlinear Dynamics Research Institutions > Research Centres > Forschungszentrum für Modellbildung und Simulation (MODUS) Faculties Faculties > Faculty of Mathematics, Physics und Computer Science Faculties > Faculty of Mathematics, Physics und Computer Science > Department of Mathematics Faculties > Faculty of Law, Business and Economics Faculties > Faculty of Law, Business and Economics > Department of Economics Profile Fields Profile Fields > Advanced Fields Research Institutions Research Institutions > Research Centres
Result of work at the UBT:	Yes
DDC Subjects:	300 Social sciences > 330 Economics 500 Science > 510 Mathematics
Date Deposited:	28 Oct 2017 21:00
Last Modified:	17 Aug 2018 09:56
URI:	https://eref.uni-bayreuth.de/id/eprint/40197

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