chartist
Americannoun
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a specialist in the stock market who studies and draws charts of trading actions.
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a cartographer.
noun
Etymology
Origin of chartist
Example Sentences
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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
Alton Locke, when adolescent, is a very poor tailor, a poet whose verses are far more vigorous than his character, a chartist, a sceptic.
From Satires And Profanities by Foote, G. W. (George William)
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