I'd like to pose a new question here.
What are your thoughts on using past charts(candlesticks) that similar current ongoing charts(candlesticks) to make price predictions?
When asked this question to many professors and investors, a common response is, "Candlesticks reflect the psychology of investors."
What are your thoughts on this matter?
Candlesticks are a great chart tool, because it not only shows one price for one day, it also gives indication on how much the price moved during that day. Charts in general are a accumulation of past prices and their visualization let's already assume that there are trends. Historically we can observe that there are boom and bust cycles that influence prices. There isn't one asset that only rises or only falls in price. Volatility is a big part of trading and using technical analysis helped me a lot to find the right trading signals. The landscape of technical indicators is huge, we need to decide for ourselves which ones we want to focus on, because there can be conflicting signals. Short term trends can show the opposite direction of longterm trends and it's up to the investor on which signals to focus more. One issue with technical analysis is that the shorter the period we look at, the more noise will get into our analysis. That is why I like to focus more on medium to longterm trends, there the chance of falling for noise as a trading signal is much smaller. Also using multiple indicators to validate our analysis is a good approach. I would recommend anybody to mix technical analysis with fundamental analysis and not only rely on trading signal alone, better to double check our research before committing a lot of capital.
If you wont really be making yourself seeing those candlesticks then how you would really be able to read out those charts and price behaviors? It is really just that hard to imagine for someone to make up some
trades but doesnt really make himself getting involved with some technical analysis aspects on which it is really that hard or impossible that you do make out positions out of nowhere. This is why it would really be just that right that you should really know the basic principles on how to make use of it because it would really be something so useful and something that could really be putting the advantage if you do have
the knowledge on how to set up those indicators knowing that the market is unpredictable but at least you could really be able to plot those possible price movement on which you could be able to observe.
Somewhat its not really that precise but at least you do already have the idea on what you should gonna do, comparing into those people who do just simply point out their fingers
and making some wild guesses on which its never been recommendable on having this way and its not really that something that could make you succeed on this type of career.