A simple chart provides a graphical representation of a market's movement through time. Here's a quick look at how to read one and make better trading decisions.rnJust as an animal leaves foot prints when it moves through the landscape, a market leaves tracks on a bar chart as it moves through time, and whether you are tracking game in the woods or a market on a chart, trackers and traders employ the many of the same skills.rn"Tracking was one of the very first sciences ever developed," says Del Morris, executive director of the International Society of Professional Trackers. "It's the process of deduction and figuring things out. You are anticipating direction and direction change, mainly though the intensity of what you see on the ground." He sums up the critical skill set of a professional tracker with an acronym:rnD.I.R.T., which stands for detection, identification, recording and trailing. "When you find someone who can do all four, you have found a good tracker," he says.
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