Futures Technical Analysis Importance For Finances

By Sarah Turner


In finances, the method that is used for security analysis and for the forecasting of directions of prices through doing a study and research about the past data for market, specifically the price and volume, is referred to as the technical analysis. The quantitative analysis and behavioral economics are two fields which use the method. It became the main aspect for an active management and the effectiveness of this also, along with the fundamental analysis, is discussed all the hypothesis of market which stated that prices for the markets cannot be predicted.

The fundamental analysts will examine the dividends, quality, new products, earnings, assets, ratio, research, etc. There are a lot of methods that are being used in this and one of it are charts. By the use of charts, doing the futures technical analysis can be very easy in identifying the patterns of prices and as well as the market trends for the financial market and for exploiting those patterns.

The technicians will be searching about the patterns like double top or bottom reversal or head and shoulders pattern for studying technical indicators, moving the averages, and looking for forms such as lines of support, resistance, channels, and other forms which are obscure like cup and handle patterns, balance days, pennants, and flags. Other types of indicators are also being used like mathematical transformations of prices. The transformation usually includes advance or decline data, up or down volumes, and some other types of input.

They also look on the relationships between the indices of price and volume and also the indicators. Some examples of this include relative strength indices, MACD, and moving averages. There are also other important indicators which include bull or bear ratios, implied volatility, put or call ratios, short interest, etc.

Many kinds of techniques are used for technical methods and the most common in use today is subjective judgment. This is in use for deciding the pattern to be reflected by an instrument and the interpretation of such pattern. Some technicians will use systematic or mechanical approach for interpreting and identifying patterns.

It is in contrast with fundamental method which is the study of economic factors that influence the way how investors are going to price the financial markets. In the technical method, prices are already been reflected on its fundamental factors. Some traders use fundamental or technical methods while others prefer on using both.

This method is widely used by traders and some other financial professionals. Other people that uses it are market makers, day traders, and pit traders. But some people have said that it cannot really predict the future, instead, it can help identify trading opportunities since the evidences on this are inconsistent and sparse.

The principle of this is the prices will reflect all of the relevant information. And the reason for this is so that their analysis will look at the history of trading pattern of security rather than the external drivers. These drivers are the fundamental, economic, and also news events.

The three very basic principles believed by most analysts are the following. These are prices moving in trends, market action discounts everything, and history repeats itself. Because of this, price actions will repeat because investors tend for patterned behaviors.




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