Practitioners' Tools in Analysing Financial Markets Evolution

In a chaotic and confusing place as world of investing is, the practitioners, who operate onmarkets every day, have continuously searched to forecast properly the market movements. Moreminded to financial speculations, practitioners analyse financial markets looking for potentialweaknesses of the Efficient Market Hypothesis, and most of the times their methods are criticized byacademics. This article intends to present the traditional tools used by traders and brokers in analysingfinancial markets, emphasizing on critical opinions and scientific works published on this argumentby now.