How markets really work : a quantitative guide to stock market behavior / Laurence A. Connors, Cesar Alvarez. [electronic resource] Connors, Laurence A. Alvarez, Cesar, 1967- Stock exchanges United States. HG4910 332.64/2 23 Includes index. Print version record and CIP data provided by publisher. 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. Hoboken, New Jersey : John Wiley & Sons, Inc., [2012] [2012] 2012 Text 1 online resource. http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/book/10.1002/9781118531594 eng Bloomberg financial series ; 158 Bloomberg financial series ; 158. How markets really work. How markets really work. United States. fast (OCoLC)fst01204155 United States. United States. United States.