The聽Quote Overview聽page gives you a snapshot view for a specific index.聽During market hours, indices are 15 minute delay, ET. New delayed trade updates are updated on the page as indicated by a "flash".
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Quoteboard data fields include:
Day High / Low: The highest and lowest trade price for the current trading session. Open: The opening price for the current trading session is plotted on the day's High/Low histogram. Previous Close: The closing price from the previous trading session. Weighted Alpha: A measure of how much a stock or commodity has risen or fallen over a one-year period. Barchart takes this Alpha and weights this, assigning more weight to recent activity, and less (0.5 factor) to activity at the beginning of the period. Thus, Weighted Alpha is a measure of one-year growth with an emphasis on the most recent price activity. YTD High, Low, Change, %Change: The high and low price year-to-date, with the change and percent change year-to-date.Chart Snapshot
A thumbnail of a daily chart is provided, with a link to open and customize a full-sized chart.
Price PerformanceThis section shows the Highs and Lows over the past 1, 3 and 12-Month periods. Click the "See More" link to see the full Performance Report page with expanded historical information.
Options OverviewHighlights important summary options statistics to provide a forward looking indication of investors' sentiment.
Implied Volatility: The erage implied volatility (IV) of the nearest monthly options contract聽that is 30-days or more out. IV is a forward looking prediction of the likelihood of price change of the underlying asset, with a higher IV signifying that the market expects significant price movement, and a lower IV signifying the market expects the underlying asset price to remain within the current trading range. 30-Day Historical Volatility: The erage deviation from the erage price over the last 30 days. Historical Volatility is a measurement of how fast the underlying security has been changing in price back in time. IV Percentile: The percentage of days with IV closing below the current IV value over the prior 1-year. A high IV Percentile means the current IV is at a higher level than for most of the past year. This would occur after a period of significant price movement, and a high IV Percentile can often predict a coming market reversal in price. IV Rank: The current IV compared to the highest and lowest values over the past 1-year. If IV Rank is 100% this means the IV is at its highest level over the past 1-year, and can signify the market is overbought. IV High: The highest IV reading over the past 1-year and date it happened. IV Low: The lowest IV reading over the past 1-year and date it happened. Put/Call Vol Ratio: The total Put/Call volume ratio for all option contracts (across all expiration dates). A high put/call ratio can signify the market is oversold as more traders are buying puts rather than calls, and a low put/call ratio can signify the market is overbought as more traders are buying calls rather than puts. Today's Volume: The total volume for all option contracts (across all expiration dates) traded during the current session. Volume Avg (30-Day): The erage volume for all option contracts (across all expiration dates) for the last 30-days. Put/Call OI Ratio: The put/call open interest ratio for all options contracts (across all expiration dates). Today's Open Interest: The total open interest for all option contracts (across all expiration dates). Open Int (30-Day): The erage total open interest for all option contracts (across all expiration dates) for the last 30 days. Barchart Technical OpinionThe Barchart Technical Opinion widget shows you today's聽overall Barchart Opinion with general information on how to interpret the short and longer term signals. Unique to Barchart.com, Opinions聽analyzes a stock or commodity using 13 popular analytics in short-, medium- and long-term periods. Results are interpreted as buy, sell or hold signals, each with numeric ratings and summarized with an overall percentage buy or sell rating. After each calculation the program assigns a聽Buy, Sell, or Hold value with the study, depending on where the price lies in reference to the common interpretation of the study. For example, a price above its moving erage is generally considered an upward trend or a buy.
The Opinion will show on the Quote Overview Page for all asset classes with this exception: For all U.S. Stocks, the Market Cap must be greater than $1B.
A symbol will be given one of the following overall ratings:
Strong Buy (greater than "66% Buy") Buy (greater than or equal to "33% Buy" and less than or equal to "66% Buy") Weak Buy ("0% Buy" through "33% Buy") Hold Strong Sell (greater than "66% Sell") Sell (greater than or equal to "33% Sell" and less than or equal to "66% Sell") Weak Sell ("0% Sell" through "33% Sell")The current reading of the 14-Day Stochastic indicator is also factored into the interpretation. The following information will appear when the following conditions are met:
If the 14-Day Stochastic %K is greater than 90 and the Overall Opinion is a Buy, the following displays: "The market is in highly overbought territory. Beware of a trend reversal." If the 14-Day Stochastic %K is greater than 80 and the Overall Opinion is a Buy, the following displays: "The market is approaching overbought territory. Be watchful of a trend reversal." If the 14-Day Stochastic %K is less than 10 and the Overall Opinion is a Sell, the following displays: "The market is in highly oversold territory. Beware of a trend reversal." If the 14-Day Stochastic %K is less than 20 and the Overall Opinion is a Sell, the following displays: "The market is approaching oversold territory. Be watchful of a trend reversal." Related StocksFor comparison purposes, find information on other symbols contained in the same sector.
Barchart Commodities Insider CommentaryBarchart Commodities Insider is Ag market commentary for Grains and Oilseeds, Energy, Gold, Silver, Cocoa, Coffee, and Sugar markets.
Most Recent StoriesView the latest top stories from the Associated Press or Canadian Press (based on your Market selection).
Today's New Highs & LowsThe New Highs/Lows widget provides a snapshot of US stocks that he made or matched a new high or low price for a specific time period. Stocks must he traded for the specified time period in order to be considered as a new High or Low.
New Highs/Lows only includes stocks traded on NYSE, NYSE Arca, Nasdaq or OTC-US exchanges with over 5 days of prices, with a last price above $0.25 and below $10,000, and with volume greater than 1000 shares.
Calculations are adjusted for stock splits but not dividend distributions. Numbers exclude exclude unit investment trusts, closed end funds, warrant stocks, preferred securities and any non-SIC classified stock.
Percentage of Stocks Above Moving AverageFor the major indices on the site, this widget shows the percentage of stocks contained in the index that are above their 20-Day, 50-Day, 100-Day, 150-Day, and 200-Day Moving Averages.
In theory, the direction of the moving erage (higher, lower or flat) indicates the trend of the market. Its slope indicates the strength of the trend. Longer erages are used to identify longer-term trends. Shorter erages are used to identify shorter-term trends. Many trading systems utilize moving erages as independent variables and market analysts frequently use moving erages to confirm technical breakouts.
When prices are rising they are usually above the erage. This is to be expected since the erage includes data from the previous, lower priced days. As long as prices remain above the erage there is strength in the market.