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Technical Analysis
Basic Investing Guide for Beginners

Technical Analysis
How to Trade Stocks and Make Money

As the human nature is constant, you can trade repetitive chart patterns that reflect human psychology repeatedly. And if you study the price history of any stocks, you will definitely see them. If your assumption about the trends is correct, you can make money time after time from that same patterns.

  • Disadvantages
    To ensure you can trade successfully, you must have enough trading funds. Due to its simplicity, novice stock traders tend to trade stocks too much with too little capital in hand. In fact, surveys have shown that most traders starting out with only $5,000 or less will most likely lose their money in the first six months.

    Technical analysis is very technical too. Although there are excellent trading softwares available in the market, the learning curve just to get started is very steep. If you have day job to take care of, you might sleep only two hours per day studying on how to use these tools. Mind you, it is not that cheap you know!

    Last but not least, you have to keep in touch with the market all the time. Any new economic waves or quarterly corporate earnings reports will affect the prices every second. Actively watching Bloomberg or CNBC as well as reviewing charts and indicators each day and every week, are probably the easiest things to do.

    Guide to Get Started with Technical Analysis

    • Get ready with enough funds to get started. This is the only way to get rid of emotional effect while trading. In addition, stop loss order and effective asset allocation can be done for risk management too. Otherwise, don’t bother to trade any stocks.
    • Established your own price patterns. And yes, you need to build your own theory here. Every stock in each market has different price behaviours as they consist of different market players. It is your task to acknowledge them, and establish that pattern. Before going any further, test them not less than ten times and look at its probability of success. Move on only if you are comfortable with the pattern for that stock in that market.
    • Firm up your trading plan. This include when to buy, time to sell and what should be done if something go wrong. Plan is just not enough, but put that in writing and pastes it on your monitor. Then only you can plan your trade and trade your plan.
    • Revised your assumptions, patterns or even trading plan from time to time, so that they remain valid whenever the opportunities exist.

    Precautions While Analyzing

    • Familiarize yourself with the major technical indicators.
    • If you wish to monitor your position, especially the more speculative and volatile stocks, keep charts as to their daily or weekly activities.
    • Study the volume indicators as well to confirm the trends.

    • And finally, by keeping in advance the decline and a moving average chart, you can obtain visual confirmation of market movement on current basis. These are especially important at the turning points in the market. Once you capture that early, the money is yours!

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    Related Reading

  • Fundamental Analysis Vs Technical. Which Make the Most Money?
  • Fundamental Analysis: Definition and Basic Guide for Beginners
  • Additional Reading

  • Introduction to Stock Trading: Why Most Beginners Lose Money
  • Stock Trading Chart: Discover Patterns Behind Any Price Movements
  • Related Books

  • Technical Analysis of the Financial Markets: A Comprehensive Guide to Trading Methods and Applications (New York Institute of Finance)
  • Technical Analysis Explained : The Successful Investor's Guide to Spotting Investment Trends and Turning Points
  • How Technical Analyses Works (New York Institute of Finance)
  • Technical Analyses of Stock Trends

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