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Utilising technical analysis to generate buy-and-sell signals to trade binary options

dc.contributor.advisorLotz, H.M.
dc.contributor.authorBrits, Fritz Scholtz
dc.contributor.researchID10192360 - Lotz, Henry Mearie (Supervisor)
dc.date.accessioned2017-06-14T14:08:31Z
dc.date.available2017-06-14T14:08:31Z
dc.date.issued2016
dc.descriptionMBA, North-West University, Potchefstroom Campus, 2017en_US
dc.description.abstractThe stock market records incorporate many attributes, a long way greater than traders can effortlessly comprehend. Investors have to consider lots of facts to try to decide on various relationships between the information attributes at their disposal, which can lead to profitable buying and selling of financial devices. Traders practice various forms of complementary analysis to change positions on the stock market with technical analysis. In essential evaluation, traders examine the underlying factors that decide the rate of a monetary instrument. For instance, factors of corporation's earnings, marketplace region, or capacity boom can affect the share price. Investors consider these factors against extra global concerns which include the overall monetary fashion. Investors have traditionally used fundamental analysis to alternate the marketplace. Technical analysis is "the examination of conduct of marketplace members, as meditated in rate, extent, and open interest for a financial market, with a view to identify tiers inside the development of charge trends. This study used the quantitative research method. Questionnaires were distributed to relevant people that are involved in the stock market. Quantitative data was used because it uses numbers, which can be analysed by statistical techniques since the data is drawn from a wide sample. The data was collected and from test results that could be analysed. The study used 20 participants for the quantitative. The participants were presented with the statements that sought to qualify technical analysis in trading binary options. 90% of the respondents were in agreement that technical analysis in trading binary options involves the sole use of price and related summary statistics, such as volume, to inform trading decisions". Also the results show that the respondent agreed (80%) that "Forecasting future price changes of financial assets is the feature of Technical analysis". These results proved that technical analysis is mainly concerned with looking at simple trading rules that do not accurately capture the activity of professional tradersen_US
dc.description.thesistypeMastersen_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10394/24998
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherNorth-West University (South Africa) , Potchefstroom Campusen_US
dc.subjectBinary option tradingen_US
dc.subjectTechnical analysis and buy - and - sell signalsen_US
dc.titleUtilising technical analysis to generate buy-and-sell signals to trade binary optionsen_US
dc.typeThesisen_US

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