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Short, plain English guides to the numbers on your screen: what a quote is made of, why the price before the bell is a different price, how to read the chart and the ratios on a stock page, and how to set an alert that actually helps. No jargon without a definition, and each guide ends with the screen where you can try it.
- How to read a stock quote
What the numbers in a stock quote mean: last price, change, percent change, the previous close, volume, and why green and red are only half the story.
- Pre market and after hours quotes
Why a stock shows two prices outside regular hours, what the PM and AH badges mean, how extended hours trading works and when to trust a print.
- Building a watchlist that actually helps
How to build a watchlist you will read every day: what to put on it, what to leave off, how to use the pulse line, and how the widget fits in.
- Price alerts, targets and percent moves
How to set a price alert that earns its ping: price targets against percent moves, choosing a level, what fires after hours, and how the five slots work.
- Reading a price chart from one day to one year
How to read the chart on a stock page: what each time range shows, gaps, trends and ranges, how volume fits in, and what a chart cannot answer.
- What analyst ratings and price targets tell you
How to read the analyst section on a stock page: the ratings count from strong buy to strong sell, the average target, and how much weight each deserves.
- The valuation ratios on a stock page
Plain English on price to earnings, PEG, price to sales, price to book and EV to EBITDA: what each compares, when it works, and when it says nothing.
- Moving averages, the 52 week range and beta
The technical numbers on a stock page explained: the 50 and 200 day moving averages, the 52 week high and low, beta, and how to read each one.
- The market indices, explained
What the S&P 500, Nasdaq Composite and Dow Jones actually measure, why they disagree, and how to read them against your own watchlist.
- ETFs on your watchlist
What an ETF is, how it differs from a stock on your watchlist, which ones make useful benchmarks, and why some ETF numbers on the stock page look strange.
- Stock market glossary
Plain definitions of the terms on your Just Stock Quotes screens, from after hours and beta to ticker, volume and watchlist.