Technical Analysis

Technical Analysis is the study of price movement.  Since you buy or sell a stock because of your expectations for price movement, it is wise to study that movement.

For the technical analyst trader, the market is the ultimate fact.

Indicators: Functions like MACD which are based on price action.

Support/Resistance:  Chart Reading.

Candlesticks and P&F:  Chart Presentation.

Relative Strength Rankings:  MAM, Accutrack, "Non-Linear", etc.

FastBreak stock trading systems based on a list without any fundamental analysis used to make the list may be profitable, but also show large drawdowns.  Also, for long lists of stocks, you can spend huge amounts of time performing the optimization with the Pro Version, even with a fast machine.

Large Caps - S&P 500, Nasdaq 100

Russell 2000

Mid-Caps