been much more volatile than looking at the logarithmic line but that's just the perspective it's the same information using apple as another example let's look at a NUMBER_TOKEN-year chart we can see here that in NUMBER_TOKEN roughly it looks like the stock just took off you see the line break sharply to the right following what looks to be rather anemic growth much of the time going forward this is an example of how recent price changes can be skewed on a linear chart if we compare this to a logarithmic chart you can see that from NUMBER_TOKEN on even though it looked like a sharp upward movement in the linear scale it's all put in perspective on the logarithmic scale and it doesn't look quite as exciting when we compare them together you can see a clearer representation of the differences between the two if we look now at a stock that isn't very volatile and doesn't hasn't grown that quickly let's look at fortis a canadian company as an example when we compare both the linear and the logarithmic charts in this case you hardly see a difference and this is because first of all the share price isn't that high it's you know trading at around NUMBER_TOKEN dollars and also the movement in the stock the growth is very consistent and it's not lumpy and up and down so in this case there's not much of a difference between the two this is looking at a NUMBER_TOKEN-year time period and you can see either stock or either chart type would probably be sufficient when you're looking at this time frame for a stock of this nature let's look at bitcoin as a contrast obviously bitcoin is much more volatile than fortis and we can see that here blue being linear on the top this can present a problem when we're looking at trend lines and if we use a bitcoin as the example if we go back to the NUMBER_TOKEN highs and compare that to the most recent highs we see a much sharper incline on the linear scale than we do on the logarithmic scale it almost looks like flat on the logarithmic scale when you compare NUMBER_TOKEN to you know the current recent highs same information but you get a totally different view here let's look at amazon as our next example and before i go to amazon uh we've recently uh struck up an affiliation with coiffin which is a charting and an analytic platform these are the charts i'm using for the presentation today i will put a link in the description below if you want to learn more about the platform they do have a free version that you can try and get familiar with the platform before you go into any of the paid programs if that's something you feel would help you with your inve with your investment research now amazon i'm showing a NUMBER_TOKEN-year chart here linear in the top logarithmic in the bottom couple of things that really jump out to me if you look to the earlier days of amazon on the linear chart it shows hardly any movement it shows like you know from NUMBER_TOKEN through to around NUMBER_TOKEN or so the stock was absolutely flat there is more of a clue on the logarithmic chart during the time period if we look back to NUMBER_TOKEN you'll see that there were up some ups and downs of amazon during that time period let's zoom in on that time period very interesting piece of information here when
START_SPONSOR_TOKEN and before i go to amazon uh we've recently uh struck up an affiliation with coiffin which is a charting and an analytic platform these are the charts i'm using for the presentation today i will put a link in the description below if you want to learn more about the platform they do have a free version that you can try and get familiar with the platform before you go into any of the paid programs if that's something you feel would help you with your inve with your investment research now amazon END_SPONSOR_TOKEN