terça-feira, 27 de outubro de 2009

Are You Using Technical Analysis

00:03 27/10/2009, Michael Swanson, finance, investments, stock market, AStock Daily


If you are interested in stock trading, analyzing profits and losses can be important. You may have heard of technical analysis but if you are just starting out you may be unsure of what it means, how you can perform technical analysis or how it can benefit you.

If you are not sure why it is important that you use both methods of analysis, you should know that no company's investment value rests solely on internal or external factors. There is a complicated web of influence that takes both of these things into account. For example, if a company is heavily in debt, an investor may not be interested in holding on to their shares. A lack of investor confidence can make stock prices plummet, making it difficult for a company to get necessary financing. There are always performance and trending reports but you may not know how to read them properly.

The different financial markets are ever changing. Some stocks which have long been considered sure fire investments are suddenly losing money and bottoming out. This must have come as a very great shock to the people who had invested in them. The hope is that by using a combination of two different schools of financial analysis, this will not happen as often or as seriously to investors.

The two different methods of financial analysis are fundamental analysis and technical analysis. The way to tell the difference is that financial analysis tends to look inward at reports being generated by the company itself. These can be financial reports including year-end statements, ledger information, and financial projections as far as future profits.

Technical analysis looks more at the market and how the shares are doing as they are being traded. The health of the business itself is secondary in technical analysis. Technical analysis uses items such as stock price and volume information. If a stock is doing well on the market charts, it is more appealing when looked at using technical analysis.

If you are considering investing, keep in mind that financial analysis is a skill which takes quite a lot of time to develop. You should not try to make massive investment decisions without some sort of input from a qualified financial adviser who can show you how to maximize the money making potential of your investment choices.

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