Comments on: Stock Market Percentages and Mathematics

By: Brandon

Brandon — Sun, 16 Oct 2011 04:32:07 +0000

This is honestly the most pointless article I’ve ever read. If you don’t know percentage differences in real numbers than you are a retard. FAIL

By: edwin hansen

edwin hansen — Sat, 10 Sep 2011 02:12:09 +0000

Hi Guys,
I am not an investor but have some small interest. Example.
Copying from above. it says DOW 8,237.58 -223.73

My questions are. How did the DOW arrive at 8,2237.58? If the DOW (or any exchange ) goes down or up by one number (is this called “a point”) what needed to happen to cause this movement. I understand average share values go up or down but not the relationship between the DOW (or any exchange) and the change.
Is this the same case as a value goes down by 20 percent. ( value 100 down by 20% equals a new figure of 80 then up by 20% equals a new number of 96)
I hope I have not confused the issue.
regards
ed

By: Staff

Staff — Mon, 29 Aug 2011 16:36:12 +0000

Yes, but it isn’t realized until you sell your investment. So on paper its value has decreased 1%.

By: cat

cat — Wed, 27 Jul 2011 20:10:19 +0000

If you have $100K broadly invested in the market, and the market is down 1% at the end of the day, does that mean your $100K was decreased in value by 1%? ($1,000.00?)

By: ak

ak — Thu, 26 May 2011 18:04:31 +0000

HI ADAM. VERY GOOD EXPLANATION. AS AN ENGINEER, I AM GLAD THAT SOMEBODY KNOWS REALITY OF STOCK NUMBERS RATHER THAN JUST FINANCIAL TERMINOLOGIES. GREAT ARTICLE. ANY LINKS FOR FURTHER MATH REALITIES OF STOCK MARKET

By: Mark

Mark — Wed, 20 Apr 2011 19:55:12 +0000

What kind of math will a person use if they were a broker or sales?

By: Lienphone

Lienphone — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 03:29:25 +0000

I want to see the stock and crime thearem in integer

By: Zim

Zim — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 13:13:37 +0000

Please I’ll like you to clearly explain P/E and EPS ratio. Stating how you got the numbers.

By: Adam Freedman

Adam Freedman — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 01:53:10 +0000

8237.58 is where the DOW is currently at. The -223.73 means it was down that many points at the close of the day, and the final number (-2.63%) is the percentage the DOW was down. Percentages are a more accurate way of indicating the activity of a market, so they always include that figure.

By: jill siegel

jill siegel — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 21:52:02 +0000

what do all the numbers in the newspapers mean as they pretain to the stock market? like above it says DOW 8,237.58 -223.73 (-2.63%) what does that mean?