What is meant by the term technical analysis?
Technical, or market analysis, is widely used by analysts who subscribe to the theory that share prices move in trends. Quite apart from the more obvious drivers of share price performance, such as supply and demand, chartists use historic movements in the share price to project and identify future price movements or trends. Such trends when identified may fall under categories such as a head and shoulders formation, breakout, double top and support level, using point and figure charts, bar charts or candle charts. As the term implies, it is a very technical area and for further reading on the subject, you might like to look at http://www.technicalanalysis.org.uk as a starting point. Where can you buy gilts and how can you find out what is available? I thought you could buy them through the Post Office as there used to be a leaflet on this. When I tried to get hold of a leaflet I was told it was no longer available. You are quite right that the Post Office used to offer this service an
