Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Largest intraday percentage drops An intraday percentage drop is defined as the difference between the previous trading session's closing price and the intraday low of the following trading session. The closing percentage change denotes the ultimate percentage change recorded after the corresponding trading session's close.
Largest intraday point gains that turned negative. These are the largest intraday point gains that closed in negative territory at the end of the trading session. In order to be considered an intraday point gain, the intraday high must be above the previous day closing price, while the opening price is used to calculate intraday highs.
While the S&P 500 was first introduced in 1923, it wasn't until 1957 when the stock market index was formally recognized, thus some of the following records may not be known by sources. [ 1 ] Largest daily percentage gains [ 2 ]
A Market Profile is an intra-day charting technique (price vertical, time/activity horizontal) devised by J. Peter Steidlmayer, a trader at the Chicago Board of Trade (CBOT), ca 1959-1985. Steidlmayer was seeking a way to determine and to evaluate market value as it developed in the day time frame.
Chart of the NASDAQ-100 between 1994 and 2004, including the dot-com bubble. Day trading is a form of speculation in securities in which a trader buys and sells a financial instrument within the same trading day, so that all positions are closed before the market closes for the trading day to avoid unmanageable risks and negative price gaps between one day's close and the next day's price at ...
A candlestick chart (also called Japanese candlestick chart or K-line) is a style of financial chart used to describe price movements of a security, derivative, or currency. While similar in appearance to a bar chart, each candlestick represents four important pieces of information for that day: open and close in the thick body, and high and ...
March 24, 2000: The S&P 500 index reaches an all-time intraday high of 1552.87 during the dot-com bubble. It hit this level again on July 13, 2007. October 9, 2007: The index closes at a record high of 1565.15, the highest prior to the financial crisis of 2007–2008. Two days later, the index hit an intraday record high of 1576.09.
A more common version of line break charts is a “three-line break” chart, which indicates that for a market reversal to occur (a new line that forms in the opposite direction to the previous lines), the price will have to break above or below the previous three lines depending on the direction of the lines. [9]