Why Technical Analysis Is More Important Than Ever
Ignore it at your peril.
There’s something happening around markets right now that doesn’t get talked about enough.
It’s copy slop.
You’ve seen the obvious version with AI slop — the hyper-realistic video of a politician saying something he never said, or a perfectly rendered image of an event that never happened. It looks real enough to trigger emotion before your brain catches up. We recognize that as synthetic.
The financial version is quieter.
Instead of fake imagery, it’s endless, polished essays on macro, earnings, AI, crypto, the Fed — all written in a tone that feels authoritative and deeply reasoned. Clean structure. Confident conclusions. Conviction everywhere.
And increasingly, circular.
Here’s how it works.
People used to write their own thoughts. Then they started using AI to draft and refine them. Then tools appeared to detect AI writing. Now there are tools that “humanize” AI text so it passes detection.
Original thought → robot assist → AI detector panic → “Make It Sound Human” button → back to fake-authentic.
The result isn’t necessarily false information. It’s amplified interpretation. Commentary layered on commentary, accelerated and multiplied. The volume of takes expands faster than the underlying data itself.
Fundamental narratives were always subjective. Management guides with incentives. Analysts adjust models. Media frames the story.
In a slower era, you approached narratives with judgment.
Then you learned to apply filtration.
But once synthetic and human become indistinguishable, the filtration mechanism itself breaks down.
Now they’re largely to be ignored.
Technical analysis is different.
It’s not immune to interpretation, but it is anchored in something objective: price and volume. A stock either breaks a level or it doesn’t. It either holds support or it fails. Volume either expands on the move or it doesn’t. Those are observable facts, not opinions dressed up as insight.
You don’t need to decide whether the latest earnings thread is brilliant or synthetic.
You need to answer simpler questions: Is demand overwhelming supply? Is the trend intact or broken? Is risk expanding or contracting?
In a world saturated with subjective storytelling, the objective nature of charts becomes an edge. Not because charts predict the future — but because they force you to respond to what is actually happening, not to what is being endlessly written about it.
It should go without saying - but I’ll say it anyway - all opinions expressed in The Lund Loop are my own personal opinions and don’t reflect the views of my employer, any associated entities, or other organizations I’m associated with.
Nothing written, expressed, or implied here should be looked at as investment advice or an admonition to buy, sell, or trade any security or financial instrument. As always, do your own diligence.