These are 3 broad market analysis for a newbie trader to have an edge over the market in trading
1. Fundamental analysis
2. Technical analysis
3. Sentimental analysis
Fundamental analysis comprises of Social, Economic and political news which serves as the driving force of all prices they greatly
influenced price volatility and momentum of cryptos, forex, indices, commodities etc.
This analysis influenced most price in a market in crypto markets watch out for crypto Forks, Government clampdown on big exchanges etc
in forex, indices, commodities Monetary policies, speeches on inflation, unemployment etc influenced prices
Traders are expected to be kept abreast and get updated on any upcoming fundamental news.
Technical analysis utilizes a trading pattern in predicting price movement of a crypto, indices etc with the aid of charting patterns
this analysis with the aid of indicating tools both leading and lagging indicators help to predict the future price movement based on past historical
calculations, of course price history repeat itself, trend lines, support and resistance lines moving averages are some of the tools in ensuring a trader trade with the trend 'Trend is your friend' in trading coupled with learning Price Action is a must for newbies to earn profits consistently.
Sentimental analysis this analysis helps a trader to study investors, whales, market manipulators etc mind on their decision making mood
Although its quite difficult to understand but some knowledge is a prerequisite to become a successful trader.
Finally controlling emotion, fear psychology are all required for newbie traders.
I think the last line which you said carries the most importance in life of any trader. The most important thing always is controlling Emotion, fear and psychology. Moreover problem with this thing is that no matter how much theory you read about it you would just never be able to control your emotions in the real arena. Which makes it much difficult to implement. I would also add a word discipline here as that also is pretty important.
I have never heard of this sentimental analysis before in my life. Perhaps it would be better to fall under the umbrella of your 'fundamental analysis' section, since mapping it to a type of news would make some sense. It's kind of like guesswork, though: trying to study whales and predict what trades they're going to make?
Maybe only in smaller market caps, but any time you're trying to speculate, you would probably be better off doing technical analysis and reading over news regarding the market. Sure, we have market manipulation here and there, but trading based on that is one sure-fire way of getting manipulated yourself. If they know you know, can't they change their strategy?
It's nothing but guess work. I have seen this in traditional markets. People go buying for those stocks in which the Hedge funds or FIIs recently invested but what they don't realize is the price differential on which those people invested and on which you are going to invest. Moreover there might be absolutely different horizons of investment that fund might be looking for. Studying whales is done using two methods one is reading volumes in the market and interpreting it with price but that can easily be classified under technical analysis itself.