TY - BOOK AU - Connors,Laurence A. AU - Alvarez,Cesar TI - How markets really work: a quantitative guide to stock market behavior T2 - Bloomberg financial series SN - 9781118239452 AV - HG4910 U1 - 332.64/2 23 PY - 2012///] CY - Hoboken, New Jersey PB - John Wiley & Sons, Inc. KW - Stock exchanges KW - United States KW - Investment analysis KW - Stocks KW - Business KW - BUSINESS & ECONOMICS KW - Finance KW - bisacsh KW - fast KW - Electronic books KW - local N1 - Includes index; How Markets Really Work: A Quantitative Guide to Stock Market Behavior; Contents; Disclaimer; Table Explanation; Acknowledgments; Chapter 1: Market Edges; Chapter 2: Short-Term Highs and Short-Term Lows; Chapter 3: Higher Highs and Lower Lows; Chapter 4: Up Days in a Row versus Down Days in a Row; Chapter 5: Market Breadth; Chapter 6: Volume; Chapter 7: Large Moves; Chapter 8: New 52-Week Highs, New 52-Week Lows; Chapter 9: Put/Call Ratio; Chapter 10: Volatility Index (VIX); Chapter 11: The Two-Period RSI Indicator; Chapter 12: Historical Volatility N2 - For years, traders and investors have been using unproven assumptions about popular patterns such as breakouts, momentum, new highs, new lows, market breadth, put/call ratios and more without knowing if there is a statistical edge.Common wisdom holds that the stock markets are ever changing. But, as it turns out, common wisdom can be wrong. Offering a comprehensive look back at the way the markets have acted over the last two decades, How Markets Really Work: A Quantitative Guide to Stock Market Behavior, Second Edition shows that nothing has changed, that the markets behave the same way today UR - http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/book/10.1002/9781118531594 ER -