Assignment: Examining a Popular Technical Trading Strategy on Singapore Exchange (SGX)

Core stages of the Assignment

The assignment comprises the following core stages:
1. Select a popular technical trading strategy.
 2. Use your chosen strategy to identify promising investment opportunities.
 3. Conduct hypothetical trades on at least 10 different stocks using Singapore Exchange www.sgx.com during the trading period 20 March 2021 to 12 April 2021.
4. Record your trade in a excel spreadsheet indicating your trade. Your recording must include the date of the transaction, quantity transacted and the bought and selling price. Use a separate sheet for each stock.
 5. Review your overall performance after the trading period ends on 12 April 2021.
6. Produce a 1,500 word report documenting your approach and evaluating your performance, including a critical discussion regarding the implications of your experience with respect to the Weak-form Efficient Market Hypothesis (EMH).
Detailed Requirements According to the Weak-form Efficient Market Hypothesis (EMH), it should not be possible to profit systematically by trading on information from past price movements. Many investment practitioners, however, claim that it is possible to systematically generate excess returns using technical trading strategies (see, for example, John Murphy’s Ten Laws of Technical Trading).
For the assignment, you put this to the test: try your best to generate excess investment returns by actively applying a technical trading strategy. Specifically, the assignment comprises of the following core stages:
 1. Conduct a search for popular technical stock trading strategies (e.g., based on moving averages, moving average crossovers, breakouts, etc.), and identify one strategy which you believe to be promising in terms of its potential for yielding excess returns. This brief guide to technical trading strategies may be useful to start your search.
 2. Apply your strategy to identify promising investment opportunities. View a selection of technical indicators. Ensure that you take screenshots