Business, Finance A financial analyst who attempts to predict future movements in the prices of shares or other financial instruments by looking for patterns in charts of historical data.
As to the Chartist agitation, there is this to be said of it, that it was thoroughly a working-class movement, and it was caused by the simplest and most powerful of all causes—hunger.1888, William Morris, Signs of Change […] , London: Reeves and Turner, page 102:
Chartist
noun
Etymology From chart(er) + -ist, see Chartism.
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Historical A supporter of the Chartism reform movement in the United Kingdom.
There to be a real blessing, raising new corn for us, purchasing new webs and hatchets from us; leaving us at least in peace; instead of staying here to be a physical-force Chartist, unblessed and no blessing!1890, William Booth, In Darkest England and the Way Out: