Cusum Techniques for Technical Trading in Financial Markets

It is discovered that the CUSUM techniques often used in the manufacturing industry can be adapted to yield a trading strategy in the financial market. The familiar filter trading strategy in finance is found to be a particular case of CUSUM procedures. A more general form of the CUSUM techniques will yield new trading strategies which have intuitive appeals. Trading characteristics of such strategies will be investigated using CUSUM techniques.

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