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What should beginners learn first, stock charts or fundamentals?

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From Broke to Six Figures and Back: Jason Brown on Options Trading, Risk and Rebuilding Wealth
The short answer

What the archive says

01His first profitable trade came from spotting a repeating price channel in Sprint stock between $4 and $5 — pattern recognition before fundamentals. source →

02Read the stock chart first to see if a stock is in an uptrend, downtrend, or sideways, then use fundamentals to explain why. source →

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What was actually said

You want to be educated to the point of what am I practicing and how do I know I'm practicing in it the right way? And the steps you want to take, or at least that we teach, is number one, you want to be able to read stock charts. A lot of people start with fundamentals first, but the reality is if I look at a stock chart, I could tell just by looking at, is the stock in an uptrend?
Jason Brown · From Broke to Six Figures and Back: Jason Brown on O (8:38)
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