Purpose – This paper seeks to analyze the use of metaphor in the 1997-2006 letters to shareholders (LTS) of Nortel Networks Corporation (Nortel). It aims to assess the prevalence of metaphor and changes in the use of metaphor as turnover in corporate leadership took place and as Nortel's...

This article tests the profitability of Bollinger Bands (BB) technical indicators. It is found that, after adjusting for transaction costs, the BB are consistently unable to earn profits in excess of the buy-and-hold trading strategy. However, the profitability is improved using a contrarian's...

This article tests the profitability of the Combined Signal Approach (CSA) (Lento and Gradojevic, 2007) in the Asian-Pacific equity markets. The CSA is based on the premise that the consensus agreement of profitable trading signals should outperform any single signal. The results present further...

This article compares a trending approach to the filter trading rule against a contrarian approach. It is found that, after adjusting for transaction costs, the contrarian approach consistently outperforms the trending approach and is able to earn returns in excess of the buy-and-hold trading...

Financial option prices have experienced excessive volatility in response to the recent economic and financial crisis. During the crisis periods, financial markets are, in general, subject to an abrupt regime shift which imposes a significant challenge to option pricing models. In this context,...

This paper investigates the multiscale (frequency-dependent) relationship between technical trading profitability and feedback trading effects in the Canada/U.S. dollar foreign exchange market. The results suggest weak evidence that technical trading activities of financial and non-financial...

The purpose of this article is to provide new insights into the relationship between technical analysis and implied market volatility (VIX) by calculating technical trading rules with the VIX price data, as opposed to the stock prices. Three trending trading rule signals are calculated on the...