Showing my mathematical analysis of charts; Dow Jones used as example

While I am aware of the term "technical analysis", this isn't really that. It's how, as a mathematics major, I approached the topic of speculating on when to buy into a stock or, if it's a dip, how much more to buy.

The predominant displays of "technical analysis" seem to be fancy termed ways of, essentially, viewing how long it takes for a cycle of buying and selling to break "equilibrium" and continue going up or down.

That has absolutely no bearing on the actual stock, itself, and is purely market psychology.

What I like to look for is just the historical trends and the essential market psychology that it's usually just trying to make all things go up so that they can sell, invest more, or short and make money off of that before investing again.

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While there are other ways to analyze things, it doesn't make much sense to get into, here, besides to show how I would mentally draw on a chart so as to get a sense of it's probable future.

Again, just talking about analysis. Not "technical analysis" but just thinking, like a Calculus student, what the derivatives and integrals would be as well as a basic equation that fits the displayed data. And not statistics, though you could feel "better" with more data points even if it ultimately just increases your computing despite a quick glance telling you where the line is if you just perused the graph a little.

Not doing this for any more than just the Dow Jones Industrial Average. A bit burdensome and, well, you can handle that yourself since I do it for myself when I look at these charts.