Discussion

Prior to beginning work on this discussion, read Drakopoulou’s article A Review of Fundamental and Technical Stock Analysis Techniques (Links to an external site.) from Journal of Stock and Forex Trading (2015). Review the financial statements for one publicly traded company, such as Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL), General Motors (NYSE: GM), Sony Corp (NYSE: SNE), International Business Machines (NYSE: IBM), Microsoft Corp. (NASDAQ: MSFT), American Airlines Group Inc. (NASDAQ: AAL), or Amazon.com (NASDAQ: AMZN)). The financial statements may be found at EDGAR | Company Filings (Links to an external site.).

• Enter the company’s stock ticker in the Fast Search box,
• Enter 10-K in the Filing Type box, and
• Click on the latest 10-K. If you wish, you can save the whole 10-K report to your computer.
  

After examining the financial statements of your selected publicly traded company, refer back to the article A Review of Fundamental and Technical Stock Analysis Techniques (Links to an external site.).

Assume you are a daily equities trader with an active traded equity portfolio. In your initial post of at least 200 words,

• Discuss the differences between fundamental analysis and technical analysis techniques you will employ to select the stock of your preferred publicly traded company.
  • Dive deeper into the details of how these two approaches differ, the criticism against technical analysis, and how technical and fundamental analysis can be used