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^depends
you'll read and analyze graphs differently depending on whether you want to 'trade' or 'invest'.. it's relative to how you want to approach the market...
'trading' is more short term and comes down to looking at chart patterns, and technical indicators like stocastics RSI's and MACD's... it can somtimes come down to intraday chart reading which most day traders have to deal with...at that point you'll probably rely very heavily on volume and spreads...
'investing' is much more long term... you'll be reading company financial statements a lot... income statements and balance sheets... paying attention to a lot of earnings reports and quarterly forecasts... dividend yields.. P/E ratios .. EPS.. seeing how much debt a company holds... blah blah blah... you gotta really dig... and pay attention to changes in the company...
i was recommended a book awhile back that i think is worth looking at if you want a decent base for investing.
it's called "warren buffet and the interpretation of financial statements"
yah investopedia is a great way of learning... but if you really wanna understand financial statements... i recommend taking a few accounting courses... even level 1 and 2 accounting courses could teach you some pretty decent pointers...
anyways.. good luck..
fortune favors the brave.
happy hunting.
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If we are not able to ask skeptical questions, to interrogate those who tell us that something is true; to be skeptical of those in authority, then we're up for grabs..
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