Intraday Data provided by SIX Financial Information and subject to terms of use Historical and current end-of-day data provided by SIX Financial Information. You collect data (stock prices) and then that data is plotted so you can see the overall big picture of what is going on. There are also several tools (technical indicators) that you can use to help you read stock charts, however they are beyond the scope of this lesson.
In order to fully take advantage of what the chart is telling you, you must first understand the basics of reading stock charts. The companies that are willing to get their shares listed need to sign an agreement with the stock exchanges where the securities are listed. Regardless of what type of stock chart you use, all three do nothing more than reveal the buying and selling patterns of the investors. The library holds this publication since 1962 for NYSE, 1964 for ASE, and 1968 for NASDAQ (formerly OTC). The historical stock information on Wachovia common stock used in the above calculator is provided by a third party. The stock price history begins on March 19, 1992 when America Online started trading publicly under the ticker: AOL. A stock moving higher on heavy volume is much more likely to continue climbing than one that is moving higher on light volume.
In order to prevent these kind of misleading signals from appearing on our charts, whenever a 2-for-1 split occurs, we divide all of the historical prices for the stock by 2 and multiply all of the historical volume by 2 so that the bars prior to the split match up smoothly with the bars that appear after the split.
The dollar had debilitated after information on Thursday demonstrated that U.S. pending home deals climbed not exactly expected a month ago, while solid products orders dropped much more than foreseen in December. The presentation of stock quotes can vary greatly, they may be graphs with values, simple line of phrase with alphabets and decimals, or tables showing values. Since the early 1960’s Standard & Poor’s Daily stock price record has been the most convenient printed guide to retrospective stock prices. Therefore, the stock price information shown here relates to FTU historical stock price.
After the shares are listed, an investor can trade by opening a broking account with a registered stock broker and he can follow the usual procedure of placing an order for sale of the number of shares he wants to sell and also fix the price at which he wants them sold.
