Introduction to Market Analysis

 

The methods used to analyze securities and make trading decisions fall into two very broad categories: fundamental analysis

and technical analysis. Fundamental analysis involves analyzing the macro events that are happening in the world. Technical

analysis takes a completely different approach and only interested in the price movements in the market.

 

Technical analysis simply just studies supply and demand in a market in an attempt to determine what direction, or trend, will

continue in the future. In other words, technical analysis attempts to understand the emotions in the market by studying the

market itself, as opposed to its components. If you understand the benefits and limitations of technical analysis, it can give

you a new set of tools or skills that will enable you to be a better trader or investor.

 

In the next tutorial we’ll introduce you to the subject of technical analysis. It’s a broad topic, so we’ll just cover the basics,

providing you with the foundation you’ll need to understand more advanced concepts down the road.

 

Technical Analysis the concepts of support and resistance are two of the most highly discussed attributes of technical

analysis. We will attempt to explain these concepts by focusing on the basics of what traders need to know. You’ll learn that

these terms are used by traders to refer to price levels on charts that tend to act as barriers from preventing the price of an

asset from getting pushed in a certain direction.

 

Most experienced traders will be able to tell many stories about how certain price levels tend to prevent traders from

pushing the price of an underlying asset in a certain direction.