Technical analysis is an investment approach, with a focus on price patterns to make investment decisions, as opposed to fundamental analysis. What, then, is pattern analysis? Pattern analysis is the interpretation of charts and the interpretation of patterns from those charts. This will be discussed in this article about a basic introduction to pattern analysis in technical analysis. Chart reading and concomitant pattern analyses are not simply mere memorisation of patterns and recalling of their interpretations. It is not that simple and there is more to pattern analysis than that. Any chart is a combination of differing diverse patterns and, hence, an accurate evaluation relies on chart reading skills and techniques, consistent pattern study of charts, experience in technical analysis, and personal knowledge both technical and fundamental analysis-wise, and the ability to evaluate differing and sometimes opposing indicators, to analyse and evaluate patterns in view of diverse, composite, and sometimes differing details as well as recognising patterns in charts using, in some cases, fixed and memorized formulae.