Stock Predictions Welcome! You are encouraged to register with the site and login (for free). When you register, you support the site and your question history is saved.One method of predicting the future value of a particular company's stock is to attempt to correlate the pattern of its recent performance with the past performance of other companies, even companies in different industries, whose subsequent stock performance is known. This technique, known as "technical analysis," provides a readily available basis for predicting the future value of a company's stock without special knowledge of that company or company's industry. Which of the following, if true, would most strengthen the grounds on which to believe predictions made about the future stock price of a particular company according to technical analysis, as described above? For a prediction about a company's stock price to be useful, it must be more accurate or accurate more in advance than the predictions of the rest of the potential buyers and sellers of that company's stock. Getting "inside" information about a particular company about what will influence that company's future stock price is difficult and often illegal. Stock analysts cover a range of companies or even single industries, so they can focus their attention more effectively by using predictive methods that will be applicable across industries and companies. There is a wealth of historical stock performance data which can be analyzed and compared to a particular stock's recent performance. At any given time, the near-term performance of a particular company's stock depends not on industry-specific factors but on trends of buyers' and sellers' behavior that can be inferred from the near past. Review Answer