Over the past 10 years, learning various strategies in terms of trading the markets to make money. Most of my training have been around being a technical trader otherwise called a chart technician. I have learnt from experience that the markets have a mind of its own, therefore one need to have in dept overview of the markets than just a tunnel vision of only learning how to trade the chart.
Never, NEVER ignore what is going in the global markets by ignoring the fundamental economic and news events that happens everyday. To make money and become a successful trader one has to learn both being a technical analyst and a fundamentalist. Without fundamental news,price will not move a great deal.
As we have seen today, trading stocks are quite as equally profitable to know the fundamentals news events coming up with to plan to 
place a trade to buy or sell. Walmart today, had a fundamental news (earning projection 2017), it was announced that in 2017 profits will be reduced to 6% instead of 12%, which was expected. Take a look at the chart, you can make money when the markets go down (sell).