Is everyone else skippng all technical analysis questions? Who’s with me on this? #SayNoToTechnicalAnalysis
I’d at least skim through the answers on the EOC and read it in the secret sauce.
well i have 5 years experience using technical analysis so its very easy, always get each question right.
on the other hand…ACCOUNTING IS TEARING MY ASSHOLE APART!
get your ass together. FRA is 20%. Technical analysis is like 50bps 
I don’t have the secret sauce. I’ll skim through the EOCs like you said. Thanks.
I have secret sauce. I can send it to you if you want.
I didn’t focus too much too much on technical analysis either. Other areas where I didn’t focus too much is alternative investments and pensions in FRA.
Please do!
I’m not sure how things work here, but write your email id here and I’ll send it tomorrow morning. (going to sleep now)
could you send it my way too?? biffab10@highpoint.edu
I’d also appreciate the secret sauce – not sure what it entails, but it sounds good: forloney@gmail.com
The TA part is super easy to learn and is interesting. Don’t be a fool.
#saynototechnicalanalysis
Dumb to say.
You can make a killing knowing how to use TA. Its quite a valuable asset when coupled with fundamentals. You don’t need fundamentals to trade a stock successfully though. I follow guys who make 5 figures each week who trade on TA. On Friday, some made 6 figures on GMCR. No fundamentalist would have cashed in on that move.
Totally agree. This is why I am debating if I want to continue with the CFA. It’s mainly a step in the door for me. But as a trader and 5 years experience using TA, not one thing has helped me improve my trading.
I see behavorial finance in Level 3 that may be interesting…but sometimes I don’t see exactly why I am pursuing the CFA. The opportunity cost of slaving for 6 months vs the education I can get from reading trading books, etc is just so much more valueable. But then again I want to work on my fundamental analysis, but as a trader all I need to know is if its going up or down, not some stupid model to get its “value”
Hey, send me a private message (if its possible, not sure how to do it myself) on here so we can discuss TA! I am in the same boat.
After working through L1 I felt the same way about the material in general - not just TA, I was hopeful that it would get better after the “easy” one was out of the way. Now that I have made it through the material for L3 I can say that it won’t get any better… I think the real thrust of the exam isn’t to help you learn how to do x/y/z; it’s to help you understand about x/y/z and have a serious conversation about x/y/z if a client asks about it - you will learn the basic theroy behind x/y/z, the inputs, how to read the output, maybe some of the problems, and how to figure out when you are in over your head - but not raelly how to do any of it. As you state above if your desire is to actually learn something useful in the real world then there are better ways - if you feel like your career needs the charter though - then you just have to get through it all.
I love all the cheating, copyright infringement and standard violations involved in sharing that material. Keep it up guys, you make all of us with the Charter proud. [/sarcasm]
What shame.