Fundamental Analysis

Fundamental analysis of a business involves analyzing its financial statements and health, its management and competitive advantages, and its competitors and markets. When applied to futures and forex,... Read more

Empirical Evidence

Whether technical analysis actually works is a matter of controversy. Methods vary greatly, and different technical analysts can sometimes make contradictory predictions from the same data. Many investors... Read more

Charting Terms and Indicators

Types of Charts OHLC - Open High Low Close charts plot the high and low of the price movement vertically and the open and close horizontally. Used to graph range and outliers. Candlestick chart - Similar... Read more

Systematic Trading

Neural networks Since the early 1990s when the first practically usable types emerged, artificial neural networks (ANNs) have rapidly grown in popularity. They are artificial intelligence adaptive software... Read more

Technical Analysis History & Principles

History The principles of technical analysis derive from the observation of financial markets over hundreds of years. The oldest known example of technical analysis was a method developed by Homma Munehisa... Read more

Technical Analysts

Technical analysts seek to identify price patterns and trends in financial markets and attempt to exploit those patterns. While technicians use various methods and tools, the study of price charts is primary. Technicians... Read more

Technical analysis

Technical analysis is a security analysis discipline for forecasting the future direction of prices through the study of past market data, primarily price and volume. In its purest form, technical analysis... Read more