Explore the fundamentals of technical analysis, utilizing historical market data to predict trends, along with the essential techniques for smarter trading decisions.

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Technical analysis can seem like one of the more intimidating corners of investing for someone just entering the stock market ...

Charts are useful tools for investors and traders as they offer insight into herd behavior. In a book written in 2004, author James Surowiecki explained how crowds make better decisions than ...

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.

Old trend lines and indicators on a chart can cloud reading technical signals. It can be useful to start over with a naked chart of just candlesticks. Taking away old lines from the weekly Nymex chart ...

There are two prime ways to analyze a stock: fundamental and technical analysis. While one looks at using historical trading data to analyze price and volume movements, the other analyzes business ...

The gold/silver ratio appears to be in free fall. There is a fractal setup on the chart similar to the 2010/2011 silver rally. Around the same time when the gold/silver ratio broke down, silver prices ...

Judging by the posts I’ve seen lately, the recent price pullback in the precious metals sector (primarily gold and silver prices) has been causing short-term anxiety and confusion among investors. In ...

Boiler bands. Head and shoulders. Death cross. Cup and handle. These are some of the terms associated with technical analysis. The idea behind this "investing" style is that pricing patterns repeat ...

Investors in the stock market tend to focus on two different ways to analyze stocks: fundamental analysis and technical analysis. Whereas fundamental analysis focuses on valuations and the underlying ...