Learning Yahoo Fin Chart

Learning how to use all the chart options in the Yahoo Financial pages.

Yahoo Finance Page has Data and a Chart function

How to navigate from Yahoo Finance for Data and Chart functions

  • Yahoo Finance page
    • In the search box on the page,
      • enter BTC and select BTC-USD from the drop-down menu.
    • Once you are in the correct page, “Bitcoin USD (BTC-USD)”,
      • note that there are several tabs above the chart, labeled:
        • Summary, which has the focus first,
        • Chart
        • Conversations
        • Historical Data, the option we will soon choose
        • and Profile
      • Chart
        • We must learn more about this option !
      • Select Historical Data
        • note the data that is displayed and its context
        • Each day has the following information displayed
          • Date, Open, High, Low, Close, Adj Close, Volume
        • and you can change the range of the Time Period,
          • and Frequency, ie: Daily, Weekly, Monthly, etc
        • It’s all downloadable

Yahoo Search: how to use chart …

Videos found from the search

  • 04:27 YouTube | Setting up Yahoo Finance Charts

Articles found from the search

The Chart screen from Yahoo Finance

  • Indicators
  • Comparison
  • Date Range 1D 5D 1M 3M 6M YTD 1Y 2Y 5Y Max
  • Interval 1Min
  • Type of Graph: Line, Area, Candle, etc
  • Draw
  • Settings
  • Share
  • Reset
  • the “My Watchlist” section on the right side of the screen
  • the “Help” option at the bottom of the page

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04:27 YouTube | Setting up Yahoo Finance Charts

  • 04:27 YouTube | Setting up Yahoo Finance Charts

Info from the video

  • 00:37 video navigates to the “Full screen” chart
  • 00:40 The “Settings” option
    • he demonstrates the “Grey Background Strip” switch
    • which turns the grey background bars on the chart on or off, displayed or not.
  • 00:50 under the “Y-access scale”, the option labeled “Linear” is on
    • he says: which means we’re looking at it in dollars value
    • he’s talking about the dollar value of the stock
      • that goes vertically towards the right side of the screen

Indicators

  • 01:12 he clicks on “Indicators”
    • Within the sub-menu, under “Commonly used”, he clicks “Moving Average”
      • A screen is displayed titled “Moving Average”
        • with several options to set it up, and a “Save” button.
    • He says he wants to add three of these:
      • 200 day
      • 50 day
      • 20 day

He adds the first indicator, as a 50 day moving average indicator

  • 01:20 he takes advantage of the default for “Period” – 50
    • he keeps the “Type” as its default “simple”
    • and the “MA” color he’ll keep as purple
    • he then clicks the “Save” button
  • 01:25 the line is now displayed on the chart as a purple line
    • when you look at the price,
      • that’s showing you what the average price was over 50 day period
      • relative to the stock price, on that current date in history
  • This also adds a little rectangle with the contents: MA (50,C,MA,0)
  • as you move the cursor around on the graph,
    • this box also displays the stock price for this line in the same color
  • You can remove this indicator (line) by clicking the close icon (X) in the little rectangle box

He adds the second indicator, as a 200 day moving average indicator

  • 01:42 he types in 200 for the “Period”
    • he keeps the “Type” as its default “simple”
    • and he changes the “MA” color to Red
    • he then clicks the “Save” button
  • 01:48 the line is now displayed on the chart as a red line
    • 200 days, this a longer time frame, so there is less movement in the arc of that line
  • This also adds a little rectangle with the contents: MA (200,C,MA,0)
  • as you move the cursor around on the graph,
    • this box also displays the stock price for this line in the same color
  • You can remove this indicator (line) by clicking the close icon (X) in the little rectangle box

He adds the third indicator, as a 20 day moving average indicator

  • 01:54 the next indicator we’re going to add, is exponential, but again, Moving Average
    • he selects “Moving Average” from the sub-menu
    • he types in 20 for the “Period”
    • and he changes the “MA” color to Green
    • he changes “Type” to “exponential”
  • 02:04 What exponential means
    • is that its going to move a little bit tighter to the actual stock price
  • This also adds a little rectangle with the contents: MA (20,C,EMA,0)
  • as you move the cursor around on the graph,
    • this box also displays the stock price for this line in the same color
  • You can remove this indicator (line) by clicking the close icon (X) in the little rectangle box
  • 02:13 Because the green line is only 20 days, and because it’s exponential,
    • it really follows quite closely to what the value actually was.

He uses this as his default setting

  • 02:22 – 20 day, 50 day, & 200 day
    • he demonstrates how to adjust or set different Period amounts, change the color

Comparison

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