The thesis aims to identify the most successful trading strategies based on technical analysis and evaluate their usefulness for investors. I was interested in how the strategies perform on different markets, so I tested them on the US and German stock exchanges. I compared five technical strategies based on various performance indicators, both with each other and with the buy-and-hold strategy. To test the strategies, I developed testing algorithms in the Java programming language. The obtained results were presented on a website, in the form of tables and interactive graphs. The results showed that all technical strategies are profitable; however, none outperforms the buy-and-hold strategy when tested on the US S&P 500 and German DAX stock indices. Technical strategies performed better on the US stock exchange than on the German one.
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