Journal of International & Interdisciplinary Business Research Volume 5 Article 5 June 2018 A Statistical Analysis of the Predictive Power of Japanese Candlesticks Mohamed Jamaloodeen Georgia Gwinnett College,
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[email protected] Follow this and additional works at: https://scholars.fhsu.edu/jiibr Part of the Finance and Financial Management Commons Recommended Citation Jamaloodeen, Mohamed; Heinz, Adrian; and Pollacia, Lissa (2018) "A Statistical Analysis of the Predictive Power of Japanese Candlesticks," Journal of International & Interdisciplinary Business Research: Vol. 5 , Article 5. Available at: https://scholars.fhsu.edu/jiibr/vol5/iss1/5 This Article is brought to you for free and open access by FHSU Scholars Repository. It has been accepted for inclusion in Journal of International & Interdisciplinary Business Research by an authorized editor of FHSU Scholars Repository. Jamaloodeen et al.: Analysis of Predictive Power of Japanese Candlesticks A STATISTICAL ANALYSIS OF THE PREDICTIVE POWER OF JAPANESE CANDLESTICKS Mohamed Jamaloodeen, Georgia Gwinnett College Adrian Heinz, Georgia Gwinnett College Lissa Pollacia, Georgia Gwinnett College Japanese Candlesticks is a technique for plotting past price action of a specific underlying such as a stock, index or commodity using open, high, low and close prices. These candlesticks create patterns believed to forecast future price movement. Although the candles’ popularity has increased rapidly over the last decade, there is still little statistical evidence about their effectiveness over a large number of occurrences. In this work, we analyze the predictive power of the Shooting Star and Hammer patterns using over six decades of historical data of the S&P 500 index.