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Stock Price Movement through Technical Analysis: Empirical Evidence from the Information Technology (IT) Sector

Shalini Singh, Anindita Chakraborty
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.21013/jmss.v3.n1.p13
Abstract
Technical analysis forecasts the future asset prices with the use of their historical prices, trading volumes, market action and primarily through the uses of charts that predicts the future price trends. Technical analysis guides the investor to track the market with different indicators which is convenient for their study. Technical indicators aids to analyse the short-term price movement of the shares, most importantly it indicates the turning point and helps in projecting the price movement. This paper is prepared to employ the technical analysis tool to IT index companies. Indicators have been analysed using share prices of companies for 1 years, i.e., from January 2015- December 2015. Study is performed using secondary data, which has been collected from NSE website. The Technical Indicators used for the study are Bollinger Bands and MACD (Moving Average Convergence and Divergence). The purpose of the study is to find the best technical indicator to analyse the share prices.
Keywords
Technical Indicators, Bollinger Bands, Moving Average Divergence and Convergences, IT Index
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