Technical Analysis
Chapters in this video
- 0:00 Why Avery the technical analyst swats away balance sheets
- 1:52 Support floors, resistance ceilings, and volume breakouts
- 2:45 Double top, double bottom, head and shoulders reversals
- 3:57 The exam trap: head and shoulders versus cup and handle
- 4:38 Golden cross, death cross, and volume confirmation
- 5:43 Technical versus fundamental: keeping the toolboxes separate
- 6:37 Rapid-fire exam recap
What this video covers
- Why technical analysts ignore all fundamental data, and how the core belief that all information is already reflected in price drives every tool they use
- How support acts as a price floor from buying pressure and resistance acts as a price ceiling from selling pressure, and what a breakout through either level signals
- The five tested chart patterns: double top (M shape), double bottom (W shape), head and shoulders, inverse head and shoulders, and cup and handle
- Why head and shoulders is a reversal pattern while cup and handle is a bullish continuation pattern, and how exam writers bait you into confusing the two
- What a golden cross and death cross represent when short-term and long-term moving averages cross, and why volume confirmation matters for each
- When a question is testing technical versus fundamental analysis based on whether it mentions intrinsic value, earnings, dividends, book value, or balance sheets
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