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chartist

American  
[chahr-tist] / ˈtʃɑr tɪst /

noun

  1. a specialist in the stock market who studies and draws charts of trading actions.

  2. a cartographer.


chartist British  
/ ˈtʃɑːtɪst /

noun

  1. a stock market specialist who analyses and predicts market trends from graphs of recent price and volume movements of selected securities

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

Etymology

Origin of chartist

First recorded in 1960–65; chart + -ist


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From a technical perspective, Kovachev warns the emerging markets index has clearly made a double top which in chartist terms is a bearish formation, two consecutive peaks at the same level, signaling a potential downtrend.

From MarketWatch ● Dec. 2, 2025

He was also a druid, a chartist leader and a nationalist vegetarian who advocated free love.

From BBC ● Feb. 6, 2020

The Dow-Jones industrial average skidded to 161.60, right through the critical level that many a chartist thought would indicate a full-grown bear market.

From Time Magazine Archive

"Psychiatrists trade on human anxiety," says one high-priced chartist of the skies.

From Time Magazine Archive

His merit consists in the possession of the chartist slang; hence his cleverness in spinning, a yarn never to the purpose, but blathered with long phrases and bubbling with cant.

From The Eureka Stockade by Raffaello Carboni

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