How Do You Chart Historical Market Stock?
Charting the historical behavior of the stock market can yield insights into the future direction of price movements. Using charts can also retrospectively show you how significant historical events affect the stock market’s behavior over time. The two indexes that represent the stock market as a whole are the Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA) and the Standard & Poor’s 500 Index (S&P 500). If your on line broker does not offer a charting service, StockCharts.com offers free effective charting tools (See Resources). Enter the ticker symbol your service uses for the DJIA. If you do not know the ticker symbol, entering “DJIA” into your service’s search function will always show you the ticker symbol. The ticker symbol for the DJIA on StockCharts.com is INDU. Entering this symbol will display a chart of the DJIA. You can also enter any ticker symbol for an individual stock to view the chart of that stock. Enter the ticker symbol for the S&P 500. Like the DJIA, the ticker symbol for the S
