Is fundamental analysis politically left wing and is technical analysis politically right wing?

Question

It seems this way after examining the assumptions behind them.

I am referring to fundamental and technical analysis in the investment sense.

Answer 1

No - left wing is having the government take care of people (medicaid, medicare, benefits - free sturf) and protect them from business (who is seen as something that needs close supervision and lots of rules), and right wing is having the government give businesses lots of leeway and the assumption that as businesses prosper, people will prosper also.

Answer 2

Analysis is apolitical. Technical analysis assumes that the market already factors in all the fundamental data.

One of the richest in Washington now is Pelozi. How she runs her business ventures has little to do with her political stances. You could call that good business sense. Or you could call it hypocrisy.

Answer 3

I'd say both technical and fundamental analysis are right wing...in that people who study the stock market usually have money, and are studying the market. People who are left wing tend (not saying this is universal) to have no money, and are therefore not interested in the market.

If you meant left brain, right brain...I'd say both are a little of both. Although there are a lot of rigid structures in both...there is room (and I'd say necessity) for a little creativity in both.

Answer 4

Well, I'm very centrist and I use both. What does that say...haha.

But really, I never thought that technical vs. fundamental has anything to do with political orientation. That's a weird question dude.

Answer 5

That's right. Leftists look at the big picture. Right-wingers can't see the forest for the trees.