2020
DOI: 10.7206/dec.1733-0092.141
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The role of need for structure in technical analysis and how identifying information in price movements raises traders’ confidence

Abstract: Technical analysis (TA) is a tool believed to support investor's investment decisions. Even if research has demonstrated that TA cannot be used to make systematic profits over a long time period, it could potentially bring psychological payoffs to its users in the form of enhancing their confidence. In an experimental study we show that: (1) chartists demonstrate overconfidence in TA usage, believing that they are better than they actually are in TA formation recognition, and that; (2) the act of naming an obs… Show more

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