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Here at Jotting on Charts, I will probably provide a weekly post without guaranteeing it will be weekly. I will be covering many charts, joined by a short commentary on stocks, bonds, currencies, and commodities, with the primary use of technical analysis.
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Why Technical Analysis?
Technical analysis focuses on the study of financial markets, considering information such as price, volume, volatility, and open interest. It provides the tools to successfully manage between intrinsic value and market price across all asset classes through a disciplined, systematic approach to market behaviour and the law of supply and demand.
Another approach, fundamental analysis, focuses on the economic forces of supply and demand that cause prices to move. Both methods attempt to solve the same problem: identifying and forecasting the direction in which prices are most likely to move. They just approach the problem from different directions.
Areas of technical analysis that I use daily include:
Classical technical analysis involves the use of charts, trends, patterns, oscillators, and indicators, as well as market breadth, relative strength, and cycle analysis.
Statistical analysis is more quantitative than the more qualitative classical technical analysis. It studies dispersion, central tendencies, volatility, regression analysis, hypothesis testing, correlation, and covariance.
Sentiment analysis is concerned with the psychology of market participants, which includes their emotions and their level of optimism or pessimism about financial markets.
Behavioural analysis studies how market participants react to the news, profits and losses, the actions of other market participants, and their own psychological and emotional biases, preferences, and expectations.
Intermarket analysis is the study of how various financial markets relate to each other and how different asset classes interact with each other. Understanding these relationships is essential to guiding the asset allocation process.
Risk management is the process of identifying and assessing risk and then developing strategies to manage and minimise risk while maximising returns.
Here are some thoughts to help you understand the research and my process:
I could spend hours here discussing my Top-Down Approach to the Financial Market. However, I am in the game of data visualisation, so here is a graphic of my process:
The Top-Down approach allows me to consolidate all financial markets into my market thesis.
Please let me know if you have any questions. @granthawkridge
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