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In recent decades with the popularity of [[personal computer|PCs]] and later the [[internet]], and through them, the [[electronic trading]], the [[chart analysis]] became the main and most popular branch of technical analysis. But it is not the only one branch of this type of analysis.
▲One very popular form of technical analysis until the mid-1960s was the '''"tape reading"'''. It was consisted in reading the market informations as price, volume, orders size, speed, conditions, bids for buying and selling, etc.; printed in a paper strip which ran through a machine called a stock ticker. It was sent to the brokerage houses and to the homes and offices of most active speculators. Such a system fell into disuse with the advent in the late 60's, of the electronic panels.
