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.

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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

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Etymology

Origin of chartist

First recorded in 1960–65; chart + -ist

Example Sentences

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

Basically, his approach is that of a chartist: he watches price and volume.

From Time Magazine Archive

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

A chartist at a public meeting, in the course of a speech about the "five points" of the charter, exclaimed, "Gentlemen, is not one man as good as another?"

From The Jest Book The Choicest Anecdotes and Sayings by Lemon, Mark