Stocks App Question

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Stocks App Question

With the landscape feature in the new 3.0's stocks app, in addition to the normal line graph, there are small bars at the bottom of the screen. They don't seem to have anything to do with the stock's values, so what are they?

original iMac G5, Mac OS X (10.4.11), iPhone 3G

Posted on Jun 22, 2009 2:23 PM

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Tamara

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Jun 22, 2009 3:42 PM in response to gus13

The little lines at the bottom of the graph are volume.

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roaminggnome

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Jun 22, 2009 2:28 PM in response to gus13

It looks like they are the same thing as the line graph only in bar form.

Same info, different representation.

It could be volume, but it does not look like it to me as the lines correspond with the line graph, and volume does not really follow the same pattern as value.

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gus13 Author

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Jun 22, 2009 2:36 PM in response to roaminggnome

That's what I thought at first, but, for example, looking at Apple's stock today, there are a couple of spikes in the bar graph (between one and two, and at the end of the day) that don't make any sense when compared to the actual values at those times.

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roaminggnome

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Jun 22, 2009 4:21 PM in response to gus13

If the lines do not match the line graph then it is almost certainly a volume graph.

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