How To Read Stocks
This is the price of the stock for the last trade of the previous day.
How to read stocks. This column gives you the lowest price that particular stock has reached in the most recent 52 week period. Note that stocks do not open at the same price that they closed at the day before due to after hours trading. The first price at which this stock traded when the markets opened this morning. One of the most popular charting types incorporates stock quote data by highlighting the open high low and close. To properly read stocks you must first understand what each column in the stock chart means.
Reading stock charts or stock quotes is a crucial skill in being able to understand how a stock is performing what is happening in the broader market and how that stock is projected to perform.