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Tuesday, September 22, 2009

Secrets To Technical Analysis

By Mike Swanson

Technical analysis has become an integral part of predicting tomorrow's markets with yesterday's information and helping many people and big corporations make the right choice with the winning results in stock trading. This is the kind of information they desperately need at a time like this.

Technical analysis is the practice of analysts taking historical data - which could be data points such as revenues or prices - and tracking their historical development. The historical period could just be in the last week or could go as far back as a few years - depending on the discretion of those working with the information. They will try to predict what is likely to be the future scenario of a particular product by focusing on the historical trends of a similar situation.

There are various ways of getting hold of this information and this can come through setting up a model or an index and various charts. Charts such as candle stick, line and open high low charts are all very useful ways of demonstrating the insight and trends that analysts have uncovered. The use of models and indexes provides the analysts with quantifiable data which they can use in the course of producing an estimate of what is likely to happen with the market they are involved with.

Technical analysis is a discipline all on its own and it was first demonstrated by one Welles Wilder. His work has laid down the foundation for many professions that are now in existence and those involved with the various stock markets around the world are no doubt particularly grateful for the work that he has done. They use his discipline as an every day tool in their work environment.

There are some who feel that the use of technical analysis by stock traders is perhaps not in keeping with the purist form of trading. They would usually advocate the use of alternative methods such as the position and price of company stocks, they would then base their future market estimations on these data points. These analysts are normally said to belong to the fundamental discipline. There is no clear decision as to whether fundamental or technical is better and big companies hedge themselves by ensuring that they have both types employed.

You cannot use technical analysis to map out the future of your company or predict what will happen but you can highlight and magnify trading opportunities that without technical analysis would have been overlooked. - 23310

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