Ancient roots : The beginnings ; Ancient Babylon ; Ancient Greece ; Ancient Rome ; Negative attitudes toward traders -- The middle ages and the renaissance : Western Europe ; Technical analysis ; Societal attitudes -- Asia : Japan ; China -- The new world : Wall Street ; Societal attitudes -- A new age for technical analysis : Dow Theory ; Relative strength ; Market cycles and waves ; Chart patterns ; Volume of trading ; Market breadth ; Nontechnical analysis -- Technical analysis today : Trends ; Patterns ; Strength ; Cycles ; Wall Street's reinterpretation of technical analysis -- A brief history of randomness and efficient markets : Prices as objects of study ; The emergence of efficient markets ; What is random? -- Academic approaches to technical analysis : Theoretical underpinnings ; Empirical evaluation ; Adaptive markets and technical analysis

1. Technical analysis (Investment analysis) -- History