Financial Engineering

Finance a la shmoop what is technical analysis okay we have fundamental [Fundamental analyst sat at a desk]

analysts who look at what the company does for a living how hard its products

are to manufacture how much they sell for how big global demand is how [Fundemental analyst check list]

powerful their brand is what their profit margins are in their growth

prospects from there how their balance sheet looks you know stuff like that

technical analysts don't care at all about any of that stuff those are

fundamental elements of a company technical analyst view stocks only as [Technical analyst chucks the list away]

trading sardines and really couldn't care less how the companies they are [Sardines with company logos on]

trading actually make money or run their businesses technical analysts follow

stock charts with influence from all kinds of shapes made by recent [Examples of shapes on a blackboard]

historical prices on a graph made by these stocks like you have a triple top

here right like so there's a hard line is trying to break out of that line line [Top line is highlighted]

says nook smacking you back down they can't break out so it's triple top and a [Hand smacks the price back down]

lot of gravity there so no maybe I'm short that stock at the end of that

triple top all right then you have the dome yeah it just kind of goes up but it

doesn't really want to break up so it's kind of trading down and then what do I

do with the stock here I don't know I don't know then you have descending tops [End of the dome is highlighted]

where Oh tried to break out oh but now it's a lower low because they miss their

earnings ah now it's a lower low and again they missed so the stocks going [Trend line showing the price going down]

nowhere it's pretty depressing around here then you have a saucer notably

shaped like a smiley face yeah you can see the two eyeballs there so you want [Smiley emoji appears]

to be long that stock somewhere in the middle there because

then it goes up and does better and yeah life's good and color and dimension gets

added to the stock charts via other technical things like volumes of shares [Colorful 3d stock chart]

traded in a given week or day or month if you're having a mini deja vu well it

might be because you just saw our M night Shyamalan dingdong

directed video directly cleverly called what is a Chartist and while they're [Girl working behind a computer]

basically the same thing technical analyst and chart us you know

same foot so yeah fundamental analyst concerned with nuts and bolts of the

operations of a business technical analyst concerned with pretty little [Descriptions of each analyst shown next to them]

drawings of the nuts and bolts reflection on a graph and interpreting

what that all means a kind of like staring at you know animal problems in [Looking at dung through a magnifying glass]

the jungle mental health analyst well I had to get a lot of these guys in their

office sorry different kind of therapy [Both the analysts at a therapist]