Technical Analysis Plain and Simple: Charting the Markets in Your Language, Second Edition

Fun With Jargon

Technicians use so much jargon that the subject sounds unmanageable to normal people. Fundamentalists talk a good story because they use understandable words like sales, inventory, and revenue. Technicians have terms like double bottom, dark-cloud cover, and breakout. This section takes a look at a few you might have heard before or read about in other books.