1. Dr . Manish Dadhich
PhD, M.Com, NET
MBA, NET, SET
2. Technical Analysis (Content)
Introduction
Explain stock price movement (Dow theory)
Technical analysis
Technical Vs Fundamental Analysis
Advantages of Technical Analysis
Challenges to Technical Analysis
3. Introduction
Two major types of analysis for predicting
the performance of a company’s stock
fundamental
technical
Fundamental
The movement in share prices are analyzed
on the basis of economic, industry and
company statistics.
If price of a share is lower than intrinsic
value, investor buys and vice versa.
4. Technical Analysis (assumptions)
Process of identifying trend reversals at an
early stage to formulate the buying and
selling strategy.
To analyze the stochastic nature of data.
Analyze Price-volume, demand-supply for the
overall market.
Interactions of D-S determine the market
value of scrip.
The market always moves in a trend.
History repeat itself and also true about the
stock.
5. Cont’d Technical Analysis?
Method of evaluating securities by
analyzing statistics generated by
Market activity
Past Prices
Volume
Do not attempt to measure intrinsic
value.
Bird eyes for patterns and indicators on
charts to determine future performance.
6. What is Technical Analysis?
Technicians believe
that securities move
in very predictable
trends and patterns
Trends continue until
something happens to
change the trend
Until that change
takes place, price
levels are predictable
7. History and Background
Technical analysis is, perhaps, the oldest form of
security analysis. It is believed that the first
technical analysis occurred in 17th century Japan,
where analysts used charts to plot price changes in
rice.
Indeed, many present-day Japanese analysts still
rely on technical analysis. which is the second
largest in the world. In the United States, technical
analysis has been used for more than 100 years
8. Technical Analysis vs. Fundamental Analysis
Technical analysis involves the development of
trading rules based on past price and volume
data for individual stocks and the overall stock
market.
Fundamental analysis involves economic,
industry, and company analysis that lead to
valuation estimates for companies, which can
then be compared to market prices to aid in
investment decisions.
9. Advantages of Technical Analysis
Unlike fundamental analysis, technical analysis
is not heavily dependent on financial accounting
statements
Problems with accounting statements:
1. Lack information needed by security
analysts.
2. Many psychological and other non-
quantifiable factors do not show up in
financial statements.
10. Advantages of Technical Analysis
3.Fundamental analyst must process new
information and quickly determine a new
intrinsic value, but technical analyst merely has
to recognize a movement to a new equilibrium.
4.Technicians trade when a move to a new
equilibrium is underway but a fundamental
analyst finds undervalued securities that may
not adjust to “correct” prices as quickly
11. Challenges to Technical Analysis
Challenges to basic assumptions
Empirical tests of Efficient Market Hypothesis (EMH)
show that prices do not move in trends.
Challenges to technical trading rules
Rules that worked in the past may not be repeated.
Patterns may become self-fulfilling prophecy.
A successful rule will gain followers henceforth
become less successful.
Rules all require subjective judgment.
12. Dow Theory
Explain the movement of the indices.
He develops 3 hypotheses
I- No single individual or buyer can influence the
primary trend of market
II- Market discounts everything e.g. Natural
calamities etc.
III- the theory in not infallible.
Market has three movements:
Primary- Upward or downward movement for a
year or two.
Intermediate- corrective movement, 3-4 weeks.
Short-term- day to day movement, fluctuation.
20. Candle Stick Charting
Green is an example
of a bullish pattern,
the stock opened at
(or near) its low and
closed near its high
Red is an example of
a bearish pattern.
The stock opened at
(or near) its high and
dropped substantially
to close near its low
21. Point and Figure Chart
Somewhat rare in nature.
Plots day-to-day increases and declines in price.
A rising stack of XXXX’s represents increases
A rising stack of OOOO’s represents decreases.
Typically used for intraday charting.
If used for multi-day study, only closing prices
will be used.
23. Point and Figure Chart
Helps to filter out less-significant price
movements allowing analyst to focus on most
important trends.
Used to keep track of emerging price patterns
No time dimension
Two attributes affecting the appearance of a
point & figure chart
Box size
Reversal amount
24. Technical Indicators
There are, literally, hundreds of technical
indicators used to generate buy and sell signals.
We will look at just a few that I use:
Relative Strength Index (RSI)
On Balance Volume
Bollinger Bands
25. Relative Strength Index (RSI)
A comparison between the days a stock finishes
up against the days it finishes down.
Big tool with momentum trading
Ranges from 0 to 100
Stock considered overbought around the 70 level
Stock considered oversold around 30
The shorter the number of days used to
calculate the more volatile.
27. On Balance Volume
On Balance Volume was developed by Joseph
Granville, one of the most famous technicians of
the 1960’s and 1970’s.
OBV is calculated by adding volume on up days,
and subtracting volume on down days.
A running total is kept.
28. On Balance Volume
Granville believed that “volume leads
price.”
To use OBV, you generally look for OBV to
show a change in trend (a divergence from
the price trend).
If the stock is in an uptrend, but OBV turns
down, that is a signal that the price trend
may soon reverse.
29. Bollinger Bands
Bollinger bands were created by John Bollinger.
Bollinger Bands are based on a moving average of
the closing price.
They are two standard deviations above and below
the moving average.
A buys signal is given when the stock price closes
below the lower band, and a sell signal is given
when the stock price closes above the upper band.
In my experience, the buy signals are far more
reliable than the sell signals.
30. Resistance and Support
Price levels at which movement should stop and
reverse direction.
Act as floor and ceiling
Different strengths (major and minor)
Support
Price level below the current market price at which
buying interest should be able to overcome selling
pressure and thus keep the price from going any
lower
31. Resistance and Support
Resistance
Price level above the current market price, at which
selling pressure should be strong enough to overcome
buying pressure and thus keep the price from going
any higher
33. Head and Shoulders
Resembles an “M” in which a stock’s price
Rises to a peak and then declines, then
Rises above the former peak and again declines, and
then
Rises again but not the second peak and again
declines
The first and third peaks are shoulders, and the
second peak forms the head.
Very bearish indicator.
35. Double Bottom
Occurs when a stock price drops to a similar
price level twice within a few weeks or months
The double-bottom pattern resembles a “W”
Buy when the price passes the highest point in
the handle.
In a perfect double bottom, the second decline
should normally go slightly lower than the first
decline to create a shakeout of jittery investors.
The middle point of the “W” should not go into
new high ground.
This is a very bullish indicator.
37. Double Tops and Bottoms
Similar to the H&S
formations, but there
is no head.
Target
Double Top
Double Bottom
Target
Source:
43. Elliot Wave Theory
Ralph Nelson Elliot gave this theory in 1920.
Elliot stated that stock market moves in repetitive cycles
44. Impulse and Corrective Patterns
The impulse pattern consists of five waves, the
five waves can be in either direction, up or
down
Corrective patterns can be grouped into two
different categories:
• Simple Correction( Zig-Zag )
• Complex correction (Flat, Irregular,
Triangle)
45. Fractal Structure
The structures Elliott described meet the common
definition of a fractal ( self-similar patterns appearing
at every degree of trend)
Elliott Wave patterns that show up on long term charts
are identical to, and will also show up on short term
charts
47. Exercise
Find out the bond price of the year 2014 of XYZ
company listed with Tel Aviv Stock Exchange with
least square method.
Yea
r
2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014
Bon
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Pric
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20 25 30 35 40 45 ?
48. Exercise
Find out the bond price of XYZ company
listed with Nikkei 225 TOPIX of the year
2014 with least square method.
Yea
r
2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014
Bon
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Pric
e
20 25 27 35 38 41 ?
50. Conclusion
Technical analysis is a particular approach to
investing that will appeal to some investors and not
to others.
Whereas most investors concentrate on the
fundamentals of a company (turnover, profits,
growth etc), technical analysts are concerned with
the share price itself.
They believe that prices are driven by the
psychology of investors rather than fundamentals.
By understanding investor psychology, they can
predict which way prices will move.
Editor's Notes
#37:Another indicator is the double tops and double bottoms and it is similar to the H&S formation without the head.
#38:Double bottom followed by a change in the trend
#39:Triangles fall under the category of continuation patterns. As you can see the ascending triangle is used to make bullish calls and vice versa. You also have the symmetrical triangles where the support or resistance level is slanted.
#40:You could see a trading range from November 2000 to March 2001 and you know it’s going to break out one way or the other and in this case, it broke out to the downside meaning a bearish signal.
A double bottom formation in mid-March to early April which gives a buy signal especially when the second bottom is higher than the previous bottom. Some investors wait until the price breaks out of the previous support level for a double confirmation before entering the trade.
A Descending Triangles between May and June and July-August which gives a bearish signal.