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26
NOV
2015

The Collective Noun for Technical Analysts

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There is no collective noun for a group of technical analysts. Let us decide what to call ourselves before anyone else decides something unflattering like: A Confusion of Technical Analysts.

Our language has some wonderful collective nouns for the various groups of animals. We are all be familiar with a…

A Herd of cows,


A Flock of chickens,


A School of fish


A Gaggle of geese, and

A Pride of lions.

But did you know:

A Murder of crows (as well as their cousins the rooks and ravens),

An Exaltation of doves

And, presumably because they look so wise: A Congress of owls, but…


Now consider a group of Baboons. They are the loudest, most dangerous, most obnoxious, most viciously aggressive and least intelligent of all primates …And what is the proper collective noun for a group of baboons? Believe it or not …A Parliament ! That explains a lot: The collective noun for Members of Parliament is the same as the collective noun for baboons.

What about us? Shall we claim A Wisdom of Technical Analysts? A Confidence of Technical Analysts?

Your suggestions and comments below please. Lets decide and lobby IFTA and the MTA to adopt it. After all we do not want to find ourselves a Coven of Technical Analysts

Trevor Neil MSTA MCSI BETA(c)2015 #BETAfinancial
trevor.neil@betagroup.co.uk

  1. Andrew Saunders November 26, 2015 at 10:11 am Reply

    Trevor, My most boring suggestion would be an ‘assortment’ of technical analysts, simply because of the diverse views a group would give given the same data.

    Slightly more flattereing I could suggest a ‘sage of’ or a ‘scholary of’, reflecting the study and thought that goes into becoming a proficient analysts.

    My personal favourite is a ‘sophist of technical analysts’

    Great idea!

    • Trevor Neil November 27, 2015 at 10:40 am Reply

      Hi Andrew,
      Assortment is appropriate. Sophist of.. would be great if we can get people to adopt it. I’ve had a few good and some funny suggestions. I will write this up in a while in another blog post. I think then I will organise a poll and as the MTA and IFTA to support it and vote for it. I hope the world of technical analysts would accept the will of the majority and we can adopt it. It might be a way to get some media interest in our little world.
      Trevor

  2. Richard Suttmeier November 30, 2015 at 1:37 pm Reply

    The one word for technical analysis is “Chartist” Chartists have honed their skills over many centuries.

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