Investors who trade financial assets like stocks on their own need tools to analyze the securities they are looking to buy or sell. The ability to evaluate stock trends and trading patterns is known ...

Lucas Downey is the co-founder of MoneyFlows, and an Investopedia Academy instructor. Thomas J Catalano is a CFP and Registered Investment Adviser with the state of South Carolina, where he launched ...

There are two prime ways to analyze a stock: fundamental and technical analysis. While one looks at using historical trading data to analyze price and volume movements, the other analyzes business ...

Gordon Scott has been an active investor and technical analyst or 20+ years. He is a Chartered Market Technician (CMT). Elena Popova / Getty Images To learn technical analysis effectively, one ...