Charting and Chartists

What is charting? What is a chartist?

Charting is the use of graphs and charts in the technical analysis of markets to plot trends of price movements, average movements of price, volume of trading, and open interest.

A chartist is a technical trader who reacts to signals derived from graphs of price movements. Other terms for chartist are technical analyst or technical trader.

Charts are a key component of technical analysis of market behavior.

(Source: CFTC)

See also:
Technical Analysis