Technical analysis can help investors make informed decisions during off-hours trading, when information is harder to come by. Here's how it works.

Michael Harris writes the Price Action Lab Blog and is the author of Fooled By Technical Analysis: The Perils Of Charting, Backtesting And Data Mining. He posts on Twitter about, well, price action.

Technical analysts believe that stock prices often trade in patterns, as the motivating driver behind the movement of stocks is humans, and humans exhibit the same emotions when it comes to their ...

To analysts who make calls on the stock market based on the state of the economy, corporate profit prospects, industry trends and the like, divining the direction of share prices by poring over charts ...

At the most basic level, technical analysis refers to the use of price charts and other bits of market information to make investment decisions. You wouldn’t think that something so innocuous would be ...

In a world increasingly shaped by data and algorithms, one enduring question in investing refuses to fade: Can you really predict market movements just by looking at charts? Also known as technical ...

Chart patterns that helped define a roller coaster year in the markets As we approach the end of 2020, one of the most volatile years in recent history for the global population and world economies, a ...

Boiler bands. Head and shoulders. Death cross. Cup and handle. These are some of the terms associated with technical analysis. The idea behind this "investing" style is that pricing patterns repeat ...

Technical analysis provides currency traders with an excellent method of finding potentially profitable trades and generating objective trading signals. With technical analysis, forex traders can use ...