INTRODUCTION & APPROACH, Making investment decisions

It's difficult to provide advice on how to make sound investment decisions. Ironically, one of the obstacles to making investment decisions is the flood of financial information regularly released to the public by companies reporting the results of their operation. Although we live in a time of instant communication, when the touch of a finger flashes a message around the globe, the world of financial analysis and investment has not kept pace with the electronic age. The speed and reach of an investor's decision-making powers have dramatically increase in recent years, thank to new technologies and information delivery systems. Yet the supply of meaningful corporate financial information, on which investors every-where rely, remains relatively backward, Internationally, information is slow in transmittal, lacks uniformity in presentation, and is subject to varying, some-times conflicting, accounting standards.
There are basically two approaches to predicting the future intrinsic value of a corporation and its securities: the Fundamental and Technical Approach. Both approach investigate past performance and seek to predict future events.

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