On technical and fundamental analysis. You will need both to be a trader. To be an analyst you will need one of them atleast. Most people who write about trading are analysts. They are analysts because they could never actually trade. The pay gap is huge to explain that.
E.g

Fundamental, dollar is going down , everybody knows.

Technical, will  be your guide to how much, where are the points to get in, get out, basically Support, resistance and retracements. You need to know these else i don't see how you can trade just with fundamental.
So depends what you want to do. If you want to be an analyst you could easily do without technical. You are just saying which way it will go. it won't hurt either ways. Last edited: 07-Aug-07 04:02 PM