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Intraday Indexes

USA Today money section has intraday charts for the DJIA, 30 year TBond yield, S&P 500, AMEX, NYSE, NASDAQ, Gold, and Oil.

DJIA, NASDAQ, and S&P on CNNfn's markets page. (Small)

DJIA on DLJdirect's home page. (Small)

DJIA & Internet Index intraday charts from Bloomberg.

Quote.com has full page detailed charts of DJIA, S&P 500, NASDAQ, and S&P 100. Or here (for BusinessWeek) DJIA, NASDAQ, S&P 500.

Standard & Poors 500 Index (and 1 day, 1 year, 5 year and 10 year) and Nasdaq from Security APL (Full page)

AOL users can access nicely formatted intraday graphs on stocks, bonds, currencies, etc. at Keyword MNC.

Collections

Huge collection of charts and graphs.

Market Vision

Dr. Ed Yardeni's charts - a huge selection of documents and charts in Adobe Acrobat format.

Nasdaq Stock Market

Standard & Poors 500 Index 1 day, 1 year, 5 year and 10 year from Security APL (Full page)

Company Graphs and Background

Charts on individual stocks are available from numerous sources on the Company Research page as well as BigCharts, Quote.com's fastquote, Bigboard, and Galt's advanced graphing. The JustQuotes and DailyStocks forms on the home page will generate links to numerous charts. If you've selected stocks to track in My Yahoo clicking the stock will get a page with a small chart that can be clicked again for a more detailed chart. MSN Investor charts stocks you've selected and Nasdaq charts are also well done. ClearStation is a site that includes many technical analysis features.

Advances in computers and software have made calculating and producing graphs and charts relatively simple and inexpensive. As a result, they're use has proliferated in general and on the internet in particular. The major advantage of graphs is that they allow a large amount of data to be viewed visually in useful ways. They can dramatically illustrate upward and downward trends as well as comparisons of multiple variables. However, while graphs are an excellent tool for displaying and analyzing past performance, they do not necessarily provide any insight into the future. In addition, you should make note of the scale, length of time, and parameters used in any particular graph. In general, starting from zero on the axis and using a longer time frame will illustrate "the big picture."

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