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Technical Analysis Trading vs Fundamental Analysis Trading/Investing
Technical Analysis (TA) is the study of charts and reoccurring patterns within charts to identify and trade with market trends. Fundamental Analysis is the study of companies and market’s fundamental values and trading or investing in these shares or markets based upon your valuation model.
The problem with fundamental analysis of markets is that markets are irrational, reasonable valuations can become completely meaningless when greed and fear start to drive a market. All assets are valued on what someone will pay for them, this price is a by product of supply and demand. Demand can be based on a true need for a product, but as is often the case with the markets, demand is simply one trader or investor believing that the asset or market will go higher than the current value. This artificial demand can drive prices to extraordinary heights, not necessarily inline with a ‘true’ value. This inefficient pricing is the main reason why fundamental analysis is inherently flawed. The below graph highlights the phases of a market and the emotions that drive the market at that point.
This graph highlights the phases of an emotional market – the bottom of the market, the start of an uptrend, a blow off top and finally a falling market. Note the emotions associated with each phase of the trend. These emotions are what drive markets day in and day out.
Technical analysis (TA) is the process of trading markets based upon identify these constantly reoccurring emotional patterns – primarily greed and fear. The objective is to identify the prevailing trend and trade with that trend. Hype and fads can be a powerful force, often driving prices well beyond a ‘true’ value. Identifying these trends and trading with the rising tide is the key to Technical Analysis. Once people start to realise that the market is in fact over priced, and selling pressure becomes the driving force, they will start to bail out on mass, accelerating the sell off – fear will have taken over. Short selling offers some very rapid trading opportunities, again identifying the capitulation phase of a market can be very profitable.
I have watched these patterns play out thousands of times of a variety of time frames, across a variety of markets – stocks, currency, commodities, indexes. I used to be a firm believer in the fundamental pricing model, but time and experience have taught me that this is a fools way of playing the markets, the only thing that drives markets is people irrationality both positive and negative. A stock that rationally and reasonably can be valued at $1 could very easily become hyped, this leads to greed fueled trading could drive the price to $20, this doesn’t change the fact that the stock is still reasonably worth $1, simply the ‘demand’ has become increasingly strong. Conversely this same stock could be driven down by fear fueled traders to 10c, again the stock is still reasonably worth $1, now the ‘demand’ is incredibly weak. Fundamental value generally does has a link to the rough pricing range of a market, however emotional trading will always push and pull markets well outside there true fundamental worth. Therefore the key to successfully playing the markets is the ability to read these patterns and ride the tide.
The other key to successful trading is not being stubborn in your opinion, often your analysis will be wrong – have an exit plan. Ensure that you ALWAYS set stop loss limits, these are your lifeline in the world of trading. I personally have more trading losses than wins, but i limit my losses with tight stops, while letting my correct trades run, moving my stop up behind them to ensure any gains are locked it. A good understanding of technical analysis and a disciplined trading plan will ensure your trading path is a successful one.
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Firstly what is Day Trading? Day Trading is the intra day buying and selling of stocks, shares, currency, commodities…well any market. A day trader enters and exits their trading positions within the day holding positions for only minutes or hours. As a rule a day trader doesn’t hold any open positions overnight. The big advantage of day trading over trading for multiple days or longer is the risk reduction that closing out all open trades by the end of the day offers.
Learn Day Trading – There are a number of critical elements involved in becoming a successful day trader. Your trading personality, your risk tolerance, what markets you trade and the two most important elements are; how you analysis your potential trades (technical analysis or charting) and your trading discipline, or trading psychology, alongside money management. How to be a day trader.
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Dave Limburg – I have been trading the markets for about 12 years now. Currently I trade full time for a living and have been doing so for about 4 years. I started out as a landscaper gardener and dabbled in trading on the side with my savings. Originally I was more of a fundamental investor, than a trader. My advice was received mostly from ‘professionals’ and my understanding of the markets was amateurish at best. I would buy recommend stocks and hold them, hoping that my guru’s advice would hold true. Generally, my results were mediocre at best. However, I was very keen to learn more, and realised early on that there had to be more efficient methods of making money from the markets. I then discovered stock charts, it was a revelation!
I immersed myself in learning all about technical analysis. I read every book on trading I could get my hands on, attended seminars and watched the market movements like a hawk. I became more and more involved in the markets and trying to find ‘The Holy Grail’ of trading, along the way I lost money, but continued to learn from my mistakes. If only there was a course like this that could have fast tracked my learning curve. Progressively my understanding of the markets and my ability to analyse charts got better and better, as did my confidence in trading, until I realised that I was making more money trading part time then I was landscaping full time. It was a simple decision. Nowadays i am a fulltime professional day trader.
Nowadays I trade a number of instruments including stocks, indexes, currency, options/warrants and CFDs (Contracts for Difference). My confidence in my trading is extremely strong and I am consistently making money. In 2007 I won a trading competition run by CMC Markets, beating 438 other traders Australia wide, by returning the highest ROI (return on Investment) over an 8 week time frame. My total return over the period was 442%.
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Forex trading or currency trading has become increasingly popular over the past few years for several reasons. Forex Trading offers long trading hours, high leverage, flexible market conditions and high liquidity for traders. Forex traders love the high volatitily that currency trading offers, allowing short traders and day traders plenty of trading opportunities throughout the day. Day Trading Forex is an accessible career with relatively low entry requirements; almost anyone can start trading forex.
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Trading CFDs or contracts for difference – CFDs are a fairly new trading instrument allowing for large leverage and potential to make large gains. CFD trading requires plenty of discipline and ability as those potential large gains can also become potentially large losses. CFDs can be a great asset to a day trader allowing extra flexibility as they can generally be traded across a wide variety of instruments – stocks/shares, indexes, forex, commodities etc. CFDs also offer huge leverage – some 20 times your investment, or even more. A price move on say gold of 1% can in fact be a real return of 20% on the gold cfd. CFDs can be used by day traders, short term traders, or even longer term investors.
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Options Trading is a exciting trading areas allowing a wide variety of trading options. Options allow for big returns without committing large amounts of money. There plenty of trading options available – buying calls and puts, selling (or writing) calls and puts and plenty of spreads and straddle options. Money can be made day trading options, buying and holding for short and medium term returns and even longer term investing. The most common trading options strategies in simply buying call options, either in the money, out of the money or at the money depending on how aggressively you want to trade. You can profit by a rising instrument price, with the options creating huge leverage opportunities for a trader.
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How to be a Trader ? This is a question i am often asked. So i have written an eductional trading course to teach anyone and everyone how to be a trader! I have a proven trading strategy that i use everyday to day trade the markets. This strategy is how i won the cmc markets trading competition – picking up $100,000 for beating over 440 professional traders. My trading techniques are straight forward and easy to learn. These trading techniuques use technical analysis to select trades and can be used across a variety of trable markets including stocks and shares, forex/currency, cfds, options and commodities such as oil and gold.
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