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By Stan Pokutylowicz on Oct 1, 2009 |Investing
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Normal 0 MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Table Normal"; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-parent:""; mso-padding-alt:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; mso-para-margin:0in; mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman";} What Is Metadata? Normal 0 MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Table Normal"; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-parent:""; mso-padding-alt:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; mso-para-margin:0in; mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman";} Metadata is data about data. When properly understood and interpreted, stock market metadata can give you the edge you need to help you picture what’s happening with a company’s stock. So if there’s a trading trend developing, one of the tools you can use to spot the trend as it moves along would be stock metadata. Five distinct reports are published about a specific company stock each day of the week, Monday to Friday. See the Bulls-with-Bears page within the Stock-Market-Keywords site to access reports for the company being featured today. You can also get to access reports for other companies that were previously featured there. The titles of these reports are: Daily Historical Metadata Detail Daily Historical Metadata Summary 15-minute Metadata Detail 15-minute Metadata Summary 15-minute Hi-Low Counts You can click on any of the reports from the list above for a complete description of it. In order to get more of a feel how metadata from these reports can be used, consider any of the following scenarios: You’re planning to buy shares in a company and you want to have an idea what 15-minute period of the trading day do shares statistically trade at their lowest points. You want to sell your shares and you want to have an idea of the best time of the day to execute your trade. You want to know the iterations of the various price range differences for a stock to help you time your trade and get a price that’s advantageous to you. You want to buy or sell a large block of shares and you want to see a breakdown of the different times of the day when the volume of shares traded for certain stock is both at its highest and lowest. Answers to these and many other questions can be derived by looking at a stock’s metadata. Of course you can always go online and find an abundance of analyst opinions and reports. There are vast varieties of stock charts, current and historical stock market results, and an increasing number of online news sources. The Bulls-with-Bears page has numerous links to this type of information But there's still something missing. Where are the data about data, something that we refer to as metadata? Until now, the general public has yet to see a viable source for this type of information. The information available on the Bulls-with-Bears page will be changing all that. Metadata is unique. It helps you to easily see the relationships that exist between the open and close values of stock prices for the day. You can also see what the values are for the other days, day after day. All stock metadata in the reports covers a specific date range for the company being featured. And, with the availability of multiple arrays of values for the different group categories within each of the arrays, there's more than a sufficient amount of data there to complete a thorough analysis. Stock metadata can show market trading activity for shares covering 15-minute blocks of time. Statistically speaking, you can quickly see Time periods when highest and lowest prices were reached Time periods when highest and lowest trading volumes were reached Metadata answers numerous questions spanning any period of time (days,months or years) like: How many times during each of the 15-minute periods during normal trading hours have shares traded at the high of the day? How about at the low of the day? What times of the day recorded the highest volume of trades? How about the lowest volume of trades? Why is this type of metadata important? Statistically speaking, it identifies the potential best time of the day to buy or sell shares. When you learn to use metadata, you come to realize that: History tends to repeat itself Numbers don’t lie, and The trend is your friend. These statements are easy to understand. Stock metadata makes it simple to prove them true. Stock charts present graphical images about a company’s stock performance. There are multiple patterns to learn about. These must be understood and correctly interpreted. When used properly, they can be quite effective for stock trading and investing purposes. The advantage of stock metadata is that it uses something that you have been using all of your life: numbers. If you know how to do simple addition and subtraction, you can use metadata. Stan Pokutylowicz Please click here to send us your comments.
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About Stan Pokutylowicz
Stan Pokutylowicz is a senior Information Technology consultant serving major North American clients like AT&T, The Boeing Company, Fujitsu Consulting, etc. He also uses his expertise for investing.
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