Question by Mella: Need help indicating a “last price” and “change” for my personal finance project?
I have to record stock prices on a chart over a period of 9 days for my personal finance project and I’m using Yahoo Finance. When I go to the stocks and view the “summary,” it clearly shows the “Last Trade” and “Change” for that day (which I need to indicate on my chart). However, I did not check the stocks every day and I’m instead just using the “historical prices” option. What would be the same thing as the “last trade” and “change?” I’m viewing the stocks for the period between April 21 and April 29, and it shows the Open, High, Low, Close, Volume, and Adjusted Close. If anybody could tell me if any of those are synonymous with “last trade” and “change” it would be very helpful! Thanks!
Best answer:
Answer by Ozzie
“Close” would be the same as “Last Trade” and “Change” would be the difference of the two “Close” prices.
So if April 21 it closed at $ 5.50 and April 22 it closed at $ 5.60, the change is $ .10.
Hope this helps!
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