At the most basic level, technical analysis refers to the use of price charts and other bits of market information to make investment decisions. You wouldn’t think that something so innocuous would be ...

Technical analysis is the study of price trends in the financial markets over time, in order to predict future trends, using mainly statistical and graphical methods. In a broad sense is that theory ...

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J.B. Maverick is an active trader, commodity futures broker, and stock market analyst 17+ years of experience, in addition to 10+ years of experience as a finance writer and book editor. Samantha (Sam ...

Brian Twomey has 14+ years of experience as an independent foreign exchange currency trader and is the founder of Brian's Investments. Amy Soricelli has over 40 years working with job candidates and ...

Michael Harris writes the Price Action Lab Blog and is the author of Fooled By Technical Analysis: The Perils Of Charting, Backtesting And Data Mining. He posts on Twitter about, well, price action.

As regular readers of this blog are probably aware, I rarely post about technical analysis. Simply, I’m not well-acquainted with its nuances, and I would probably sound like a dilettante if I tried to ...

Technical analysis is a method of predicting price movements and future market trends by studying charts of past market action. Technical analysis is concerned with what has happened in the market, ...