Price chart
A price chart plots what a stock has cost over time — each point is one trading day's closing price.
A chart tells you where the price has been, which is not the same as where it is going. The most common beginner mistake is reading a rising line as evidence the rise continues.
What a chart is genuinely good for: scale and context. A 4% drop looks alarming in a headline and unremarkable on a chart of the last two years.
In Stoxhatch
Charts show 30 daily closes — roughly the last six weeks — labelled with the dates covered and the change over that window.
Related
- Quote — A quote is the current price of a stock: what buyers are offering, what sellers are asking, and what the last trade went through at.
- Market capitalisation — Market cap is the share price multiplied by the number of shares — what the market thinks the whole company is worth.
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