Questions tagged [chart]
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Price graphs: why not percent change?
Apologies if this is a dumb question but:
Why do price charts for securities like stocks and foreign exchange always show the actual price numbers instead of charting everything in terms of percent change?
The measure of how much the price changed…
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Do "growth of $10k" charts for mutual funds account for fees? I've found conflicting information
I've had several people advise me that the growth of $10k charts that you see for mutual funds, and provided by, e.g., Morningstar, account for the expense ratio of that fund (but not sales loads). So you can compare the performance of two funds…
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How can I compare multiple mutual funds on a single chart at once?
Google finance (finance.google.com, or www.google.com/finance), used to have the ability to compare many stocks or mutual funds (tickers) at once. Now, apparently after they significantly altered and downgraded the site in 2018, I can't seem to…
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Why do Ethereum and Bitcoin have very similar charts?
I have noticed today that Bitcoin (BTC) and Ethereum (ETH) charts look almost the same.
Why are they so correlated?
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Why have candlestick charts overlaps?
my understanding of candlestick charts is that they are composed of open/high/low/close values of a particular timeframe. Now, if I opt for a, say, hourly chart, this would imply that the opening value of any candle should exaclty match the closing…
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What kind of activity do the long candle-lines on candlestick charts correspond to?
The image at the bottom shows the price of a particular stock earlier today on a red/green candlestick chart.
Some of the candle bodies have thin lines ,circled in red, sticking up (circled on one candle) and down (circled on another candle). There…
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What is wrong with this Chart/Information
According to the chart from google. This fund is down 7% for three months, but looking over to the right it shows this fund is up 7% ?
So what is the truth?
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OHLC chart, is it graphed on bid prices, ask prices or executed trades?
I have a stream of bid/ask market data and a stream of executed trades.
Quick question, as not too sure how to best approach this. To draw an OHLC chart, would I:
a) Base calculation entirely on observed bid prices over a time period (highest bid,…
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Is candlestick charting an effective trading tool in timing the markets?
In the world of technical analysis, is candlestick charting an effective trading tool in timing the markets?
If used correctly, how accurate can they be in picking turning points in the market?
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What causes a saw-tooth like trend of a bond?
I'm curious why this bond (and likely many others) has a very regular pattern of vertical increases and decreases at what seems to me starts and ends of trading days. Visually it shows like a saw-tooth…
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No trading data other than close for a stock on a given date
I'am a web developer, I'm creating a web application stock chart. When deal with big amount of real world stock data, i come across a few line of odd data, for example "open price= 0, high price = 0, low price = 0, close price = 4.12".
Keep in…
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Chart analysis: What does this mean: 200 period moving average?
In a chart analysis I read the sentence the red 200 period moving average can be
seen rising from the lower left of the chart.
I know what a moving average is, but what is meant by the 200 period? Is this the window the average is taken from, i. e.…
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Does Yahoo finance adjust ETF's historical data for splits and dividends? (not stocks or shares)
On the ETF's graphs I see there are steep falls. There is a legend indicating the ETF was split 1:10. However like Stocks or Shares, I don't see the price being adjusted for splits.
Is this correct, is there a way to see ETF data adjusted for…
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Which online services offer logarithmic charts for equities such as index funds and ETFs?
The way Google Finance does the logarithmic representation is more a cry to absurdism, rather than logarithmic. So which services offer the logarithmic valuations, not just a bit axis moving? And it would be useful to know which base they use in the…
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What software and make charts, screen stocks, like in this answer?
I looked at this question
Why would I want a diversified portfolio, versus throwing my investments into an index fund?
and I tried to find the software victor was talking about but I couldn't. I cant comment on the question so I wanted to ask what…
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