Monday, February 27, 2012

Financial Investment: A pretty cool equity market graphic

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This graphic has more or less of the S&P 500.  It is really cool because they organize all stocks by industry and the map incorporates relative market cap.  Market cap is basically the market's way of determining firm size. You can see how the common stocks of these firms perform, given the parameters that you set up.  Because of the map structure, you can visually map out things like industry performance, large cap performance, etc. 

For practical purposes, it might not be that useful because past performance does not guarantee future performance, unlike many things in life.  It could be useful in giving you ideas on your next trade however.  This is a neat tool to sort through stocks.

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