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What method are you guys using, technical analysis or fundamental analysis. I use technical analysis and a little fundamental analysis.
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I am a day trader, I have invested in Stock Maket for almost two years. Mostly, I used technical analysis to pick a stock then studied its fundamental. Technical is good for short, fundamental is when emeegence happen in case to I have to hold it long(Ex: Economic depression cause all maket down a lot,only a strong fundamental stock will rise again).
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Technical analysis. Fundamental analysis is already done by the big money, who are investing for millions of dollars in a stock. The know what the value of the stock is, done by there fundamental analysis and therefor bought the stock to see it go higher, or sell the stock. As I see it, we, as little investors don't have to be concerned about the fundamentals, for the little amount of money we invest, it'll not influence the stock price to move either up or down. But that's my humble opinion.
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I agree with Chris, Technical Analysis is the first way to find entry points and supports/resistance zones.
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Fundamental Analysis is useless for short term trading. Just read the news everyday and be careful when companies report earning reports.
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I used to use fundamental analysis but it didn't work so well, so now I only focus on technical.
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Technical!!!! Books are often so over cooked no one can trust them.
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dudu wrote:What method are you guys using, technical analysis or fundamental analysis. I use technical analysis and a little fundamental analysis. technical and fundamental are the same thing, most of the time technicals are a reflection of the fundamentals that are occuring. i will give you an example, here is a simple trade, the ag sector, fertilizer there is more demand in the summer time than the winter time, so fundamentally you want to buy them in the winter time, from a technical stand point during the winter you are looking for the technical indicators that indicate a reversal or a bottom so to speak to get to hold until demand picks up. they are both one in the same
Hope This Helps And Don't Forget To Have A Fantastic Day.
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Technical analysis for short-term trades to take advantage of the trend. Both for long-term investments; fundamental analysis to identify those dividend paying stocks that I want to hold long term, then technical analysis to identify the entry points.
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Technical analysis has its own advantages and so does fundamental
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According to Wikipedia, Technical Analysis is a security analysis discipline for forecasting the future direction of prices through the study of past market data, primarily price and volume. In its purest form, technical analysis considers only the actual price and volume behavior of the market or instrument. Technical analysis "ignores" the actual nature of the company, market, currency or commodity and is based solely on "the charts," that is to say price and volume information, whereas fundamental analysis does look at the actual facts of the company, market, currency or commodity.
I would say good fundamentals surely reduces the risk associated with a trade.
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technical analysis!
Many traders believe that technical analysis is a more effective approach because, by definition, the technical approach includes the fundamental. Technicians believe that anything affecting the price, such as fundamentally or psychologically, will be reflected on charts. Thus, they believe that the study of fundamental becomes unnecessary. However, the reverse is not true.
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I use mostly technical analysis, however, it is pretty disturbing to invest in a stock that is steadily loosing money.
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i agree with technical analysist for daily trader.. 
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Technicals and once i know where market it's going and it's being back with indicators. That's what I make my move. works 80%. it's not 100% fool proof
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Fundamentals look at what is happening with the company. In addition to all the number crunching, it includes, from my viewpoint, looking at the entire company scene. What new products are in the pipeline, any changes in top management, any pending government regulation changes, potential takeovers or mergers and so on. Investors react to all of that, be it a fact or a rumor. So knowing the company and the industry helps to predict the market's response. Add technical analysis to the strategy and you increase your chances of success.
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Take it from Experience... you need both of them...
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Both are important tools...
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I can't see how you can be successful in fundamental analysis unless you are an expert in a particular market - how am I to understand a crop production report, or how a company stacks up against all of its competitors - it's way too subjective. I know some people are successful at it - guys like Warren Buffet devote their entire lives to understanding these things - I can't do it. And then you got guys like Jim Cramer, who most people think is very successful, but, really, is he?
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