A date-and-cost line chart tracks a commodity's changing price over time. Economists use such diagrams to display broad market trends and predict future prices. Businesses that restock continually use ...

Trend lines are a type of regression analysis, which is a way to study the relationships between variables. In the context of small business, trend lines are often used to show sales trends and can be ...

Crypto trading charts, such as line charts, bar charts and candlestick charts, show how crypto prices and other information changes over time. Understanding how to read cryptocurrency charts for day ...

Excel’s chart features can turn your spreadsheet data into compelling visual communications—if you know what to do. This guide will walk you through the basics of setting up trends, percentages, ...

Stella Osoba is the Senior Editor of trading and investing at Investopedia. She co-founded and chaired Women in Technical Analysis. She has 15+ years of experience as a financial writer and technical ...

Investors who read stock charts can use moving averages, price action and volume signals to sell stocks. Add to that toolbox a simple straight line. If a stock breaks its long-term price trend, that's ...

- GBP/JPY has started to show volatility again after an uncharacteristically quiet 2017 continued into the early portion of this year. After an aggressive reversal showed in February brought on ...

At the beginning of the year 2016, you could purchase a barrel of oil for about $26. Today that same barrel of oil would cost you $69. If your first thought is "that's more than a double," your first ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. John Navin is a Colorado-based journalist who writes about stocks. The divergence between the performance of the S&P 500 and the ...