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University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

The Profitability of Technical Trading Rules in United States Futures Markets

Abstract

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The results of the first approach confirm Lukac, Brorsen, and Irwin's successful findings during the 1978--1984 period. The replication results, however, show that substantial technical trading profits during the early period disappeared in the subsequent 1985--2003 period. The results of the second approach indicate that the best rule of 14 technical trading systems generates statistically significant economic profits only for 2 of 17 US futures markets over 1985--2004. This evidence suggests that technical trading rules in general have not been profitable in US futures markets over the last 20 years after correcting for data snooping biases.

Degree

thesis:*
Name thesis:degree_name
Ph.D.
Level thesis:degree_level
Dissertation
Discipline thesis:degree_discipline
Agricultural and Consumer Economics
Grantor
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Year dc:date
2015

Author and committee

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Author dc:creator
  • Park, Cheol-Ho
Contributors dc:contributor
  • Irwin, Scott H.

Subjects

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Rights

Language dc:language
eng

Identifiers

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Identifier
(MiAaPQ)AAI3199110
OAI identifier oai:identifier
oai:www.ideals.illinois.edu:2142/82980

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Last updated
2026-07-22
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citation

Park, Cheol-Ho. The Profitability of Technical Trading Rules in United States Futures Markets. Dissertation thesis, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/2142/82980