Should Individual Investors Use Technical Trading Rules to Attempt to Beat the Market?
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عنوان ژورنال: American Journal of Economics and Business Administration
سال: 2010
ISSN: 1945-5488
DOI: 10.3844/ajebasp.2010.201.209