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Getting started with technical analysis.
Trading decisions in the foreign exchange market can be based on technical analysis as well.
Technical analysis, like fundamental analysis tries to understand the behavior of the market forces and makes predictions based on this understanding. However it tries to do so by studying the market data of the past and by making forecasts about possible trends and movements in the exchange rate.
Fundamental analysis presents a good picture of the most current market scenario; yet most traders who rely heavily on fundamental analysis will still, quickly use some technical analysis to get an overall idea of what kind of a history the current investment has to deal with.
A quick glance at some preliminary charts will inform them if they are buying or selling at fair prices, whether they are making an entry at a particularly choppy time or if they are selling at a good time.
Making a Few Assumptions
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Technical analysis of the foreign exchange market involves taking into account a large number of factors, studying their interdependence, identifying which ones have more of a bearing on the movement of prices and then finally making a forecast.
It thus becomes very important that only those factors or fundamentals that have a significant impact on the prices are studied more carefully while those that cause only insignificant changes can be safely ignored.
This means that technical analysis starts with some very basic assumptions:
- The price data is an accurate indicator of the market fundamentals. Other market fundamentals which may have an impact, although not very significant, would be moods in the market, various opinions and so on - which can be safely ignored.
- Technical analysts believe, as a result of intensive studies, that history always repeats itself in regular patterns, making them highly predictable. They have termed these patterns as signals and are essentially generated because of the movement in prices. The goal of a technical analyst is to understand the signals present in the past market data and use them to understand what kind of signals lie in the present market.
- Technical analysts also believe that there is never any random fluctuation in the prices and that they move in trends. Thus, if there is an upward or sideways trend, it will continue to be so for some time.