Tomi Kilgore, Columnist, Dow Jones Newswires
The stock market is widely seen as a leading indicator for the economy which in turn influences longer-term equity trends. It’s important to track changes in the market to gain insight into the longer-term health of the economy. This session will provide an introduction to technical analysis, showing how to identify some key patterns that can foreshadow market moves. In addition, we will dive into how reading the charts of several different stock market segments, as well as other asset classes, can help predict movements in the broader stock market, as well as the economy.