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Interpretation of Stock Exchange Chart That Appear On the Financial Pages
From the last revision of this site there has been a series of changes so much as in the way of publishing the financial news as of the nature and variety of products offered, although the main change has been the Internet and the almost instantaneous access to the information.
The main suppliers of financial charts that would appear every day on the financial pages of the newspapers were the Wall Street Journal and The New York times. But things change. With the appearance of the investor’s business daily who has entered the information sector with strong steps and presenting many innovations, among them, technical charts, information about technical indicators and indicators of the characteristics of the public investor (these last with property rights). This novelties, united to the demand from part of the Wall Street Journal to copy them, even after the IBD soften its first page by including signed articles.
To know how to read, comprehend and to extract information from these charts has a vital importance to make successful investments. The information about securities beyond the market are published on two lists:
“The National Market Issues”, of the National Association of Securities Dealers automated quotation system (NASDAG), now merged with the American Stock Exchange (AMEX) and
“The BID and asked Quotations”, of NASDAQ.
The NASDAQ-AMEX list picks the most traded shares in the NASDAQ. The second list of securities beyond the market, is the BID and asked quotations, which picks the less traded shares who have no actual quotations at the disposal of the investors.
The financial pages also give an analysis of the general tendency of the market. On the list titled as general market and sectors you can find a summary of the most active securities whose prices had the biggest percentages of ups and downs. This section puts emphasis on the general tendency of the market and of those that moment presents most interest for the investors.
Its finality is to reflect the feeling of the market as such is how you should is it; don’t make use of it to choose the most active shares or of the sector which at the moment is more active.
Apart from these, the “Earning Digest” (Published daily in the Investors Business daily and in the Wall Street Journal), reflects the value of the securities. The profit report gives us the net sales (income) and net profits or net losses, the benefits per share and other important information taken in consideration, from the present year as for the former year, in those exercises.
The main newspapers can give you information about benefits and quotations of local companies.