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Jasmina Hasanhodzic is a research scientist at Alpha-Simplex Group, LLC, where she develops quantitative investment strategies and benchmarks. She received her PhD from MITs Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. Her works on alternative market betas and technical analysis have appeared in leading publications, such as the Journal of Investment Management, and she is the coauthor with Andrew Lo of the book The Heretics of Finance. She also serves on the Board of Directors of the Market Technicians Association Educational Foundation.

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Praise for The Evolution of Technical Analysis

Where there is a price, there is a market, then analysis, and ultimately a study of the analyses. You dont want to enter this circle without a copy of this book to guide you through the bazaar and flash.Dean LeBaron, founder and former chairman of Batterymarch Financial Management, Inc.

The urge to find order in the chaos of market prices is as old as civilization itself. This excellent volume traces the development of the tools and insights of technical analysis over the entire span of human history; beginning with the commodity price and astronomical charts of Mesopotamia, through the Dow Theory of the early twentieth centurywhich forecast the Crash of 1929to the analysis of the high-speed electronic marketplace of today. The account is particularly refreshing for academics steeped in statistical models, as technical analysis relies upon a substantially different analytical language: graphs, trends, and complex structures. An excellent overview of an important topic.William N. Goetzmann, Edwin J. Beinecke Professor of Finance and Management Studies, Yale School of Management

This book will fascinate anyone interested in technical analysis. Lo and Hasanhodzic are the first to compile this history and they present it with clear, good-humored prose that moves swiftly. And the book has a larger message. By charting the history of organized trading through the millenniaeven Babylon!it points out the timelessness of the human endeavor we presently know as Wall Street.Carol Osler, Director, Lemberg Masters Program in International Economics and Finance, Brandeis International Business School, Brandeis University

This book is an exhaustive study of technical analysis history and development from Babylon to the present, another classic by Lo and Hasanhodzic. Using multiple sources, the authors provide a persuasive argument for the origin, rationale, growth, and future of technical analysis. I found the information and logic compelling, and I highly recommend this book to anyone interested in the analysis of trading markets.Charles D. Kirkpatrick II, CMT, President, Kirkpatrick & Company, Inc., coauthor of Technical Analysis: The Complete Resource for Financial Market Technicians, and Adjunct Professor, Brandeis University

The fascinating history of technical analysis and its role in shaping the behavioral theory of modern financial markets.

The Evolution of Technical Analysis explores the history of technical analysis from ancient Babylon through the Internet Age, and highlights the successes and failures of the pioneersthe famous and the forgottenwho played a pivotal role in the evolution of this fascinating craft. Today, thanks to their contributions, technical analysis has evolved from voodoo finance into a more scientific endeavor, emerging as a respectable discipline that commands the attention of all serious students of financial markets. This sweeping history will surprise skeptics and open the door for more constructive dialogue between technicians and proponents of modern finance.

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A movement is over when the news is out, so goes the Wall Street maxim. For thousands of years, technical analysismarred with common misconceptions likening it to gambling or magic and dismissed by many as voodoo financehas sought methods for spotting trends in what the markets done and what its going to do. After all, if you dont learn from history, how can you profit from it?

In The Evolution of Technical Analysis, the director of MITs Laboratory for Financial Engineering, Andrew Lo, and coauthor Jasmina Hasanhodzic present an engaging account of the origins and development of this mysterious black art, tracing its evolution from ancient Babylon to the rise of Wall Street as the worlds financial center. Along the way, the practices of Eastern technical analysts like Munehisa Homma (the god of the markets) are compared and contrasted with those of their Western counterparts, such as Humphrey Neill, William Gann, and Charles Dow (the father of technical analysis).

With deep roots in antiquity, technical analysis is part art and part science, seeking to divine trends, reversals, cycles, and other predictable patterns in historical market prices. While the techniques for capturing such regularities have evolved considerably over the centuries, the all-too-human predilection to extrapolate into the future using the past has been a constant driving force throughout history.

The authors chronicle the fascinating and unexpected path of charting that likely began with simple superstitions and coincidences, and has developed into widespread practices in many markets and instruments, involving sophisticated computational algorithms and visualization techniques. The Evolution of Technical Analysis is the story of how some early technicians failed miserably, how others succeeded beyond their wildest dreams, and what it means for traders today.