Technical analysis is a trading discipline employed to evaluate investments and identify trading opportunities by analyzing statistical trends gathered from trading activity, such as price movement and volume.
While fundamental analysis focuses on determining a security's intrinsic value by examining related economic and financial factors, technical analysis focuses solely on the price and volume data of a security.
1. Market action discounts everything: All known information is reflected in the price.
2. Prices move in trends: Prices are more likely to continue a past trend than move erratically.
3. History tends to repeat itself: Market psychology plays a significant role in price movements, and these patterns tend to repeat.