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In finance, technical analysis (and stock charting analysis) is a discipline of security analysis to predict price changes by studying historical data, primarily price and volume.

Technical analysts try to identify price trends and trends of financial markets and groped to exploit these patterns. While technicians use various methods and instruments, the study of price charts is primary.

Technicians in particular to pursue archetypal forms, such as the well-known head-and shoulders or double top reversal patterns, indicators such as moving averages of the study and look for patterns, like the lines of support, resistance, channels, training and more obscure as flags, pennants, the days of balance and Cup and handle patterns.

Technical analysts make extensive use of indicators, which are typically mathematical transformations of price or volume. These indicators are used to determine whether an activity is a trend, and if it is, the direction of prices.

Technicians also look for relationships between price, volume, and if the futures open interest. Examples include the relative strength index, and MACD. Other forms of study include correlations between changes in options (implied volatility) and put / call reports with the price. Among other technical indicators of sentiment, as Put / Call Ratio and the implied volatility in their analysis.

Technicians seek to forecast price movements, such as gains from successful operations exceed more numerous but smaller losing trades, producing positive returns in the long run because of the risk control and money management.

There are several schools of technical analysis. Adherents of different schools (eg Candlestick charting, Dow Theory, Elliott wave theory) may ignore the other approach, but many operators to combine elements of more than one school.

Some technical analysts use subjective judgments to decide which model a particular instrument reflects at a given time, and that the interpretation of this model should be. Some technical analysts also employ a purely mechanical or systematic pattern recognition and interpretation.

Technical analysis is often contrasted with fundamental analysis, the study of economic factors affecting prices in financial markets. Technical analysis is convinced that prices already reflect all influences such before investors are aware of them, then the study of price alone. Some traders use technical or fundamental analysis exclusively, while others use both types of business decisions.

Users of technical analysis are often technical or technical and market. Some prefer the term market analyst and technical analyst, or simply market. An older term, Chartist, is sometimes used, but that discipline has expanded and modernized the use of the term has become less popular Chartist.

Type of Charts

Some of the types of charts are as follow:

• OHLC “Bar Charts” — Open-High-Low-Close charts, also known as bar charts, plot the span between the high and low prices of a trading period as a vertical line segment at the trading time, and the open and close prices with horizontal tick marks on the range line, usually a tick to the left for the open price and a tick to the right for the closing price.
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• Candlestick chart — Of Japanese origin and similar to OHLC, candlesticks widen and fill the interval between the open and close prices to emphasize the open/close relationship. In the West, often black or red candle bodies represent a close lower than the open, while white, green or blue candles represent a close higher than the open price.
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• Line chart — Connects the closing price values with line segments.
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• Point and figure chart — a chart type employing numerical filters with only passing references to time, and which ignores time entirely in its construction.