Is technical analysis bullshit? Many people will dismiss technical analysis as useless before doing the homework to even fully understand what it is or how it should be used. Dismissing technical analysis as bullshit after hearing that academics dismissed it in a paper is like saying no one can make any money in the stock market because some academics did a study and didn’t make any money. There are as many ways to use technical analysis as there are ways to make money in the stock market. Stock market participants range from day traders to value investors from option traders to futures traders and technical analysis ... (full story)