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Re:A free, complete guide to Technical Analysis by confluence on Wednesday November 05, 2014 @06:30AM (#8561365)
> forecasting prices based on past data

By your definition everything is technical analysis.

Which makes your definition useless.

Re:A free, complete guide to Technical Analysis by yummyfajitas on Wednesday November 05, 2014 @06:43AM (#8561382)
Hardly - fundamental analysis exists.

Any strategy lies somewhere on the continuum of strategies ranging from purely technical (looking at past prices only) to purely fundamental (looking at fundamental data only).