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The Collective Noun for Technical Analysts
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
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!
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
The one word for technical analysis is “Chartist” Chartists have honed their skills over many centuries.