Stock analysis can be done using both fundamental and technical analyses. But as a retail investor we are in no position to make a fundamental analysis as the data needed for that is impossible to attain. Whereas in technical analysis the only inputs are price and volume to find demand and supply. It is much more straight forward. Always look for companies that everyone must have heard of and which are actively traded in the market so that they will be less likely to be manipulated. We can use charts to find out these price patterns and to time our investments