Sentiment is determined by a number of methods, such as option pricing, analysis of the tick trading data, surveys of investors, musings in the social media and comments by the analysts.

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The traditional patterns used in technical analysis were, of necessity, fairly crude, determined by what was readily visible to the eye.

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