Everyone thinks there a genius in a bullish market then everyone jumps out of high windows when it turns bearish and they lose it all. The Trick is to only do what your doing as long as the Bull Market runs, the issue is, you'll likely stop wayyyy short of it.
Your request for an invitation to my block list has been granted. I gather you are in good company. Goodbye learner2007.
I say "no". The charts show what players are actually DOING with their money. That's what you need to be in-tune with as much as possible.
You mean exploratory analysis like this. ABBV AbbVie BA Boeing BBY Best Buy CAT Caterpillar COH Coach CSCO Cisco http://i.imgur.com/CCP8hDa.png CTL CenturyLink http://i.imgur.com/eJB6u0f.png CVX Chevron http://i.imgur.com/pUf2GVd.png D Dominion http://i.imgur.com/cT30nrF.png DOW Dow Chemical http://i.imgur.com/AHre1v3.png DUK Duke Energy http://i.imgur.com/NNY9XXP.png ED Consololidated Edison http://i.imgur.com/CRxKQXn.png EMR Emerson Electric http://i.imgur.com/RaQKpwC.png EXC Exelon Corp http://i.imgur.com/TFJ57qT.png EXR Extrage Space Storage http://i.imgur.com/6bEGrrm.png F Ford Motor http://i.imgur.com/j2Mq0ns.png GM General Motors http://i.imgur.com/XlhE3Ir.png GPS Gap http://i.imgur.com/uoc7nNg.png HOG Harley-Davidson http://i.imgur.com/C7WSLjH.png HRB Block H&R http://i.imgur.com/vV8JS72.png IBM Intl Business Machines http://i.imgur.com/Km5etpv.png INTC Intel http://i.imgur.com/pufJDbV.png IP International Paper http://i.imgur.com/TowdpT8.png JWN Nordstrom http://i.imgur.com/BRQeeBo.png KSS Kohl's http://i.imgur.com/ahhDO3h.png LB L Brands http://i.imgur.com/fidZ8Tb.png LVS Las Vegas Sands http://i.imgur.com/2gidcQf.png M Macy's http://i.imgur.com/GGs1Q5X.png MET Metlife http://i.imgur.com/tWYB5F6.png MO Altria Group http://i.imgur.com/WmTjOBU.png MRK Merck & Co http://i.imgur.com/rLdKpEw.png OXY Occidental Petro http://i.imgur.com/2TU9w1g.png PFE Pfizer http://i.imgur.com/lJd44dy.png PG Procter & Gamble http://i.imgur.com/JeDFH9k.png PM Philip Morris http://i.imgur.com/vOhjZuq.png PRU Prudential http://i.imgur.com/6OKDj5c.png QCOM Qualcomm http://i.imgur.com/zgShMjz.png RAI Reynolds American http://i.imgur.com/MjV5X6p.png SE Spectra Energy http://i.imgur.com/gp4PzwE.png SO Southern Co http://i.imgur.com/pTV1UKD.png SPLS Staples http://i.imgur.com/JAQe179.png T AT&T http://i.imgur.com/lVJvzKL.png TRI Thompson http://i.imgur.com/ZEdr5lc.png VLO Valero Energy http://i.imgur.com/hZB6j9n.png VZ Verizon http://i.imgur.com/NMc8b7d.png WFC Wells Fargo http://i.imgur.com/0r5hn2d.png WU Western Union http://i.imgur.com/QNAHcx6.png XOM Exxon Mobil http://i.imgur.com/yoFONWc.png And for reference YM Dow Index http://i.imgur.com/IQp4fwd.png
Sounds like you're searching for support for your desire to justify "fundamental analysis something". Fundies are always subjective and often incomplete... that is, fundamental analysis often misses things of importance... some of which is intentional deception. Going to say this one last time. FORGET FUNDAMENTAL ANALYSIS. Whatever fundamentals are important will be reflected in the charts. If it's not "in the charts", it's not important. When "something fundamental becomes important", its anticipation will already have been reflected in the charts. Feel free to disagree.
The founder, William O'Neill, of Investor's Business Daily has written some good books on trading/investing in books based on Fundamentals and TA, I actually like his approach CAN SLIM https://www.google.com/?gws_rd=ssl#q=william+o'neil+books https://www.google.com/?gws_rd=ssl#q=canslim+method+pdf http://www.investors.com/ibd-university/can-slim/ http://www.readtheticker.com/Pages/IndLibrary.aspx?65tf=168_william-j-oneil-canslim And http://investors.morningstar.com/ne...ulture=en-US&ProductCode=mle&resourceId=83565 Of all the approaches I have read on stock trading, this only one I know works as I use to trade it in late 1980s/90s, but now I use charts, TA. If I am iffy on a stock, I will take a look at the fundamentals if I am seeking more of a dividend long term keeper. Sometimes, not often, but sometimes the FA will explain what their future might show and not the chart, like if they expensed huge one year cause they wrote off accounts receivable due to another company going belly up, or new accounting system, but if they continue to have more revenue 3 of last 4 years, sales continue to increase can explain away what the charts are showing. But I was doing CAN SLIM for number of years as it made sense to me, but then the years I was trading it was start of huge Bull market and monkey throwing darts might have done as well or better. I don't use it as much now cause of automation whipping through 15,000 stocks looking for gem as I usually stick to 50 stock/ETFs to trade both up and down. I try to stay with non dividend stocks and ETFs to short as I don't want to have to pay dividends, but if a stock just paid their dividends, I would short it as most of my stocks trades have three month or less durations, whereas be long for years type stocks I collect the dividends. Either buying core of stocks once every 10-20 years when market makes huge decline OR watch commodity markets and looking for ten year lows then look for stocks that will be showing bottoming and buy those where they have dividends like Crude Oil or Coffee companies, you can get in much cheaper thereby getting much bigger percentage dividends, but as stock rises, percentage lowers as all based on value of the stock when bought.
When you say 'hire a fundamental analyst' why not just accentuate your personal knowledge with a service like Morningstar or somesuch?