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Chapter One
Wrapping Your Brain around
Technical Analysis
In This Chapter
* Understanding the basic principles of technical analysis
* Recognizing how market sentiment and crowd extremes influence trading action
* Choosing indicators that match your analysis style
* Using optimization to refine your indicators
Get ready to suspend belief in everything you think you know about trading
and investing. Technical analysis, a set of forecasting methods that can
help you make better trading decisions, focuses on the price of a security
rather than the fundamentals of the company behind the security. In technical
analysis, you observe how prices actuall ... read full excerpt from High-Powered Investing All-In-One For Dummies ebook