Historical prices
Every other figure on an asset page is built from the same raw material: the record of what the price did. OHLCX Markets shows that record directly, as a chart you can move around in and as a table you can read off.
What OHLCV means
Each bar on the chart and each row of the table records one period of trading with five figures:
- Open
- The first price traded in the period.
- High
- The highest price reached.
- Low
- The lowest price reached.
- Close
- The last price traded. It is the figure most analysis is built on.
- Volume
- How many shares changed hands. It shows how much conviction was behind the move.
The chart
The chart at the top of an asset page draws each bar as a candle: green when the close was above the open, red when it was below. The thin lines above and below the body reach to the high and the low. Volume runs along the bottom in matching colours.
It opens on the most recent candles. Scroll or pinch to zoom, and drag to move back through the history.
Eight bar sizes
The buttons above the chart switch between one-minute, five-minute, fifteen-minute, thirty-minute, one-hour, four-hour, daily and weekly bars. Changing the bar size reloads the chart and recalculates the Technical analysis section to match.
Pick the size that fits the question. Weekly and daily bars show the trend. Hourly bars show how the last few sessions unfolded. Minute bars show what happened inside today.
The prices table
The Prices tab in the Technical analysis section lists the most recent bars as numbers: date, open, high, low, close, volume, and the change from open to close. Use it when you need an exact figure rather than a shape, for example the precise close on a given day.
The quote header at the top of the page gives the latest bar at a glance, with the previous close and the average volume of the last ten bars for comparison.
Reading volume
A price move on heavy volume had many participants behind it and is harder to dismiss. The same move on thin volume may simply reflect a quiet market. Comparing a bar's volume with the ten-bar average in the header is the quickest way to tell which you are looking at.
Historical prices, answered
How far back does the price history go?
It depends on the bar size. Daily and weekly bars reach back furthest; minute bars cover the most recent sessions. Drag the chart to the left to see what is loaded.
What time zone are intraday bars shown in?
New York time, the time of the US market, and the page labels it ET.
Is the data real-time?
Market data is provided in near real-time when available. Its accuracy and timeliness are not guaranteed, and it is for information only.
Why does the day's change in the header differ from the Change column in the table?
The header compares the latest close with the previous bar's close. The table's Change column compares each bar's close with its own open.
More about what an asset page shows
Performance metrics
How far an asset has moved, over the last month, the last quarter and the year so far.
Read the guide →Risk characteristics
How rough the ride has been: drawdown, volatility, and return per unit of risk.
Read the guide →Technical analysis
More than twenty indicators, moving averages and pivot levels, read into one plain verdict.
Read the guide →Patterns analysis
Candlestick patterns found on the latest bars, each explained in plain words.
Read the guide →Research here. Trade on OHLCX.
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