One of the things I like about Quote.com's Q-charts (besides the real time feed, time/sales, flexible displays, alerts, etc. etc.) is the ability to scroll any chart, (whether it's a 1, 5, 10, 15, 30, 60 minute intraday or a day, week, month, quarter chart), backwards to any time period you like. I find this a very useful feature for precisely the reasons that you're looking for such a chart capability.
It allows you to look back in detail at the effect of stock splits, earnings, etc, which tend to get buried if you just pull up say a 5 year chart. For example, the 65% decrease in AOL between March and July 1996 looks pretty tame on a 5 year chart, but it looks as awful as it really was when you go back and look at the daily chart for that same time period.
Unfortunately, you can't get Q-charts without a subscription, and I can't post charts for you to look at since Q-charts is a WIN 95/98 application with a real time data feed.
David T. |
