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Weekly Finance Thread - 2026-07-25

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Study it carefully, as you would any high quality textbook. It's the most important book, and it also happens to be quite beginner friendly.

Let me know in a post or private message when you are done, and I'll be happy to guide you further. :)

Yeah, that is a good book (I had read it long back - around 15 years ago; many of his recommendations, I still follow till date. one of the foundational books for me).

i don't think CAN-SLIM is a technical analysis system. i may have forgotten lot of stuff from the book though.

Now you are really confusing me.

It absolutely is a technical analysis (and market timing) system combined with fundamentals. In fact, by most practitioners, more time is spent mastering the technicals than is spent on digging into a company's products, leadership, reports, narrative, etc.

Why do you think the book starts out with a hundred pages of charts in chapter 1? You can't claim to have learned the system if you haven't learned to interpret and value charts.

from my understanding, CAN-SLIM is fundamentals boosted by technical analysis. Not technical analysis alone.

my interpretation of our discussion till now has been:

  1. you propose using technical analysis as the sole basic idea. and not as something to overlay on fundamental analysis (which CAN-SLIM is).
  2. my own interpretation is that technical analysis (charting), if true, should not have anything to do with the underlying fundamentals of whatever we are charting / analysing technically. Whether it is AAPL or GLD, charts should work on human nature rather than the properties of Apple's earnings or Gold's no earnings.
    Please correct.

I have never at any point proposed using technical analysis alone. I have no idea how you got that idea.

Interpreting a chart will help you decide what to buy, when to buy, and when to sell.

From this. As i said, this is what i interpreted as (that is different from claiming that you have exactly said that).

Nowhere have you said: "assess the fundamentals of a company (or sector), and then overlay technical analysis and charting to correctly identify the points (or areas) of when to buy and when to sell, etc.?". Or any other elaborate or simple explanation.

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