21.   Q. To the uninitiated, technical analysis looks a lot like what the folks who compile and massage baseball statistics do for a living.

22.   Some managers are also encouraged by technical analysis, which uses charts of previous performance to predict future stock prices.

23.   Some traders use technical analysis, or the study of historical price patterns, to determine trading strategies.

24.   Technical analysis has vindicated itself outside the ivory tower, too.

25.   Technical analysis has its believers and detractors, but it is an unusual attempt to make sense of an exceedingly mysterious phenomenon.

26.   Technical analysis can help keep a value investor from stubbornly fighting the market for years on end.

27.   Technical analysis relies on price and volume movements.

28.   That was the technical analysis.

29.   Technical analysis is based on the notion that the past repeats itself in predictable ways.

30.   Technical analysis suggests Day Runner stock could be ready to pull back.