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Random article: Dow Jones Index
Dow Jones Index (abbreviated as DJI) was introduced by Charles Henry Dow in the end of the 19th century. Charles Dow was an editor of Wall Street Journal newspaper and a founder of Dow Jones & Company. This index was purposed to trace development of industry branch of the US stock markets, therefore it was named “industrial”. Originally it represented an arithmetic average of 12 largest stocks of American industrial companies. Over the years the number of constituent companies grew, and by this moment Dow Jones industrial includes indices of 30 largest companies of the USA representing a scaled average of their stock prices.
Popular article: Japanese Candlesticks
Trading with financial instruments on the Forex, a trader will always use price charts to analyze and predict movement of prices in the market. The simplest price chart is a line graph. It shows rates by one line. But there are other kinds of graphs that are more informative, for example, a Japanese candlesticks chart. It is not difficult to guess that historically Japanese candlesticks chart appeared in Japan in the XIII century. Candlesticks are used to display price quotations rates, commodity prices, stocks and others. "Japanese candlesticks" type of chart is often called configuration of interval and line graphics, because each element displays a range of changes in price for a certain period of time, for example, minutes, hours, days, weeks. Nowadays, they are one of the most popular methods for representing price movement.
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