Wall Street Mind Games Part I & II

The price of a share of stock goes up or down depending on a number of factors, which can sometimes be derived from a combination of technical and fundamental analysis. However, as any investor knows, formulas don't always work the way they should. If they did, somebody would have long since developed the perfect computer program that would perform an analysis and determine whether or not the price would go up, and by how much. We could then use said program to get rich very quickly. Unfortunately, no such program exists, and in the world of stocks, as in all things, there are no guarantees. A stock with strong fundamentals may remain stagnant. A profitable company's stock may dip when every type of analysis says it should rise. An unprofitable company on the
brink of disaster may even experience at least a temporary spike in stock price.

That's because there is a world beyond both technical and fundamental analysis that must be accounted for: Welcome to Wall Street Mind Games.