The Predictive Power of Candlestick Patterns - An Empirical Test of Technical Indicators on the Swedish Stock Market Using GARCH-M and Bootstrapping

Sammanfattning: Using statistical tests, the profitability and predictive power of a technical analysis strategy based on candlestick patterns is tested. Candlestick technical analysis is a short term strategy based on the open, high, low and closing prices of a financial asset. The results show that the strategy is not profitable in the short term and has no predictive power when applied to 29 OMXS30 stocks over the period from 2007 to 2015.