the.com/price action
the market's diary, minus the adjectives.
means trading and analysis based purely on how a price moves over time, ignoring news, fundamentals, or anyone's opinion about why.
from emerged from early 20th-century tape reading, when traders like Jesse Livermore studied ticker tape movements instead of company reports, believing the price already knew everything.
core beliefall information is already priced in
tools usedcandlesticks, support, resistance, trendlines only
no indicatorspurists reject moving averages entirely
origin erapopularized during 1920s stock tape reading