Investing with Volume Analysis: Identify, Follow, and Profit from Trends

Introduction

Do you believe navigating the markets in the coming decades will be as easy as it was in the 1980s and 1990s? If not, perhaps you should consider sharpening your investment skills with technical analysis, specifically volume analysis.

My exposure to technical analysis began early in my career as a financial advisor. Like in most major brokerage firms, my firm’s squawk box reported various stock stories from the market analysts. These stock stories would make a case for why a particular company was undervalued, overlooked, or discounted relative to some future development or innovation. The best of these stories would be relayed to retail clients, who would invest in the stock of the companies featured in the stories. Occasionally, ...