Oh boy here is comes... TECHNICAL ANALYSIS.
>do you do it?
>how much learning did you do before you trusted your skills enough to apply them?
>where did you learn it?
does anyone know a specific place where a person could find webinars, videos, etc starting from the beginning and where to start? youtube seems to have some but they are either black and white powerpoint slides or not long or in depth enough.
>>985119
Pic related: Technical analysis
>>985119
i use it, just to try to get better prices. i use it mostly with indicies though. individual stocks you might guess a ceiling or a floor but it's usually a poor guess.
babypips, the forex site, goes over TA in it's class very well
I learned by renting this book from my library. I use it more as a a guide for when to time my purchases and exits. Its nifty to know but I never bet against the fundamentals and proper analysis and projections.
http://www.amazon.com/Japanese-Candlestick-Charting-Techniques-Edition/dp/0735201811
>>985119
I teach it (TA) to corporate energy company employees. I speak at seminars when asked and talk to university finance classes. I'm an oldfag with many experiences and I own a trading company as well as a consulting company. My client base is mid-tier corporations and private companies that are usually family owned. (Investment banks will never hire me but I have trained two investment bankers.) I live in Houston.
If you own a fancy bag of golf clubs, do you know how and when to use each one? It's sort of the same thing with technical analysis. Only there's a lot more TA methods than golf clubs.
TA is a great thing but FA is too. FA told you that one day the Saudis would fuck shale producers. TA told you the day that it happened. That's the value of TA.
Goldman Sachs uses TA so you should, too.
>>985344
How would you recommend I into TA? Google? I'm a minimum wage wage slave btw.
>>985119
Waste of time. Learn a real skill.
>>986632
Easiest way to start is with your friend, Google.
>>985119
I would have to kill you if i told you how i do it
>>985119
Investopedia is prretty good but it's mostly text, not videos. I'd be a little wary of anything on Youtube.
There are lots of good books out there. The Intelligent Investor gets mentioned a lot.
>>985119
>>985162
"How to TA?" is a meme, learning how to trade profitably requires years of work and effort.
Open a demo account somewhere, develop your own method, and practice until you're consistently profitable. Then go live with the smallest amount of cash you can while working on mastering your emotions. Don't be reckless.
>>986729
This guy would disagree:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CyT0BKBinoM
>>985119
>>do you do it?
yes
>>how much learning did you do before you trusted your skills enough to apply them?
pretty much straight away
>>where did you learn it?
university, master of computer science
>>986955
I stopped watching at the obnoxious dubstep.
