title: Forex Analysis and Trading: Effective Top-Down Strategies Combining Fundamental, Position, and Technical Analyses
author:  T. J. Marta 
description: <b>T.J. Marta</b> is Founder and Chief Market Strategist of Martaon the Markets, LLC. He is Editor and Publisher of the dailyMorning Minute and a regular contributor to the Overnight Expressand FXstreet.com. T.J. is a respected strategist and speaker withmore than 20 years of Wall Street and business experience. Martauses his technical knowledge, market experience and passion forhistory to provide not only context for global developments, butmore importantly, the investment implications of thosedevelopments.<br />T.J. has served as a US trading floor economist, fixed incomestrategist and G10 currency strategist at two of the largestfinancial services firms in the world: RBC and Citigroup. Hisprofessional affiliations include the National Association forBusiness Economics and the Money Marketeers of NYU's Stern School.Marta holds a BS from the University of Pennsylvania's WhartonSchool and an MBA from the Stern School at New York University.
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  Y. Tan et al. (Eds.): ICSI-CCI 2015, Part III, LNCS 9142, pp. 87–97, 2015. 
  DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-20469-7_11 
  Technical Indicators for Forex Forecasting:  
  A Preliminary Study 
  Yoke Leng Yong(), David C.L. Ngo, and Yunli Lee 
  Department of Computing and Information Systems,  
  Sunway University, Bandar Sunway, Malaysia 
  14071856@imail.sunway.edu.my,  
  {dngo,yunlil}@sunway.edu.my 
  Abstract. Traders and economists are often at odds with regards to the ap-
  proach taken towards Forex financial market forecasting. Methods originating 
  from the Artificial Intelligence (AI) area of study have been used extensively 
  throughout the years in predicting the trading pattern as it is deemed to be ro-
  bust enough to handle the uncertainty associated with Forex trading time series 
  data. Herein this paper, the effects of different input types, in particular: close 
  price as well as various technical indicators derived from the close price are in-