A basic technical analysis course for pattern analysis

What is pattern analysis? It is basically the reading of charts. It is said oftentimes that chart reading is not as easy as the simple memorizing of patterns and recalling what they mean. This is true, because any stock chart is a combination of different patterns, and that is why accurate analysis relies on consistent study, experience and personal knowledge of elements both technical and fundamental, and, in some ways and in some measure, the ability to weigh various opposing indications, to appraise patterns in view of their minute, composite details and in the recognition of fixed, memorized formulae.

 

What are the reasons why market participants buy and sell securities in the market? Knowing those reasons will help us make better informed decisions about buying and selling securities, and knowing those reasons is a key part of technical analysis in pattern analysis. There are thousands of market participants at any point selling and buying securities for many reasons, motives and from different financial positions and information/ knowledge positions: for instance, a wide spectrum might have a love of return and a concomitant hope of gain, an aggressive optimism, hedging, with stop loss triggers, with price target triggers, using perhaps fundamental analysis, or perhaps utilising technical analysis, basing decisions on broker recommendations, and many more. Trying to figure out why participants are buying and selling can therefore be challenging. Chart patterns thus place buying and selling into perspective by combining supply and demand into a kind of concise picture. As a visual and complete record of trading and prices, chart patterns provide a framework to analyze bulls and bears in stock price movements. Hence, chart patterns and technical analysis can help us determine the true, bigger picture.

What might pattern analysis do? Pattern analysis can be utilised to make short term or long term forecasts about stock prices. Data can be intraday, daily, weekly or monthly, and patterns can be as short as one day or as long as many, many years. Furthermore, for example, gaps and outside reversals may form very quickly in one single trading session, while, broadening tops and dormant bottoms may take months to be established.
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