Lesson 4: What Technical Analysis Can Contribute Analyzing financial markets is not a walk in the park. They are affected by several factors such as central bank's monetary policies, government's fiscal policies, and internal economic factors. Knowing those factors and understanding how they influence assets markets and assets, and identifying the factors with the biggest impact are not easily done. Furthermore, inaccuracies could happen when studying those factors, which is more likely the situation of individual traders whose time and attention are limited. There is, however, a simpler way where analysts can keep an eye on just one piece of data price movement.