You now can compare your selected stock's performance against the Nasdaq's performance over the same period of time. If you look carefully, you will see that, although ORCL has gone down and back up mirroring the Nasdaq's rise and fall, it has fallen less and gone up more relative to the Nasdaq's overall performance. Big Charts also offers a number of other indicators, comparisons and styles of charting that you may find helpful for your research. Using comparison charting will let you see a bigger picture of a stock's strength relative to other stocks within its industry and against the overall markets. Armed with this information, you should be able to seek out investments that will continue to perform and amaze your friends when their stocks have all tanked far worse than the market.
Past results is no indication of future performance.
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