How To Read Stocks
This column gives you the lowest price that particular stock has reached in the most recent 52 week period.
How to read stocks. One of the most popular charting types incorporates stock quote data by highlighting the open high low and close. Note that stocks do not open at the same price that they closed at the day before due to after hours trading. As you can see from the chart below the notches on the bar indicate the price. This column gives you the highest price that particular stock has reached in the most recent 52 week period. The first price at which this stock traded when the markets opened this morning.
This is the price of the stock for the last trade of the previous day.