Technical Analysis Plain and Simple: Charting the Markets in Your Language, Second Edition
by Michael N. Kahn
What Is the Market?
Just as is learned in Introduction to Economics courses, the market for stocks, bonds, commodities, or foreign exchange is comprised of buyers and sellers. The price at which they trade is determined by supply and demand.
The following list breaks down the process further. As can be seen, the prime mover of markets is the perceptions of the people in it.
The market is comprised of buyers and sellers.
Price is determined by supply and demand.
Supply and demand are determined by the aggressiveness of the bulls and the bears.
Bullish and bearish actions arise from perceptions of value.
Notice that actual value is not in the list. What a market should be worth based on mathematical and economic models is not the deciding factor in ...
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