13845. Fundamental Versus Technical Financial Analysis. The paper examines the techniques of technical and fundamental analysis to see how their approaches to the stock market differ, and to show how Malkiel's (author of A Random Walk Down Wall Street) "random walk" theory explains the inevitable successes of short-term 'trend' based technical theories. KEYWORDS: financial analysis techniques fundamental technical. 14 pages, 22 footnotes, 5 bibliographic sources.