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This study used Taiwan Futures market data from January 1, 2016 to 28 December, 2018 to generate four types of creative K chart data. The four methods for modifying the K chart included: (1) Heikin-Ashi chart ; (2) weighted average volume chart; (3) volumes accumulated candlestick chart and (4) Range Bar. Empirical studies were made to verify whether using the modified K chart, relative to using the traditional K chart, could improve the performance of various strategies established by TA indicators, including KD, MA, MTM, CDP, CCI, DMI, RSI, WMS, Bollinger Band and MACD. After backtesting with in-the-sample data, we used two filters to find out which technical indicators were more profitable and used them to backtest in out-of-sample data, backtesing were made by empirical data from Taiwan Futures market. The empirical results showed that: all of the combinations could not outperform the buy-and-hold strategy. After using two filters, CDP performed well with traditional K chart, Heikin-Ashi chart and volumes accumulated candlestick chart, showing that profits could be improved by decreasing trading times.
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