Stock Market Trends Research Guide

Purpose: Help investors, students, and business researchers find, interpret, and compare public market data to draw insights.

Data sub-genre: Business Information → Stock Market Trends

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What data is available?

Public market data includes price history, volume, fundamentals (P/E, market cap, EPS), analyst ratings, financial statements, and technical indicators. Most sites provide interactive charts, downloadable tables, and screeners for filtering companies by performance or attributes.

Drawing Insights

By combining these three sources together, a user can progress from reading raw data to getting a deeper understanding. Yahoo finance highlights which stocks and sectors are the most active and flagging any unusual trading patterns. Bloomber explains why these changes are happening, tying them to policy, macroeconomic news, and more factors. TradingView allows users to test their investment in technical picture applying indicators to assess whether a trend is a strength or is nearing reversal. These tools create a useful workflow of spot activity → find the cause → test the outlook.

1. identify highly active markets

select nvda

2. research cause of stock movement

read news articles on nvda's cause of stock movement on bloomberg

3. test hypothesis and analyze trends

looking at the nvda trends, assess if this is a good investment.

Resources

1. Yahoo Finance

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caption: Most Active Stocks on Yahoo Finance, showing price, volume, and ratios to help users spot unusual trading activity.

On Yahoo Finance, a user can access real-time and historical data for every traded stock. The site provides details like market capitalization, P/E ratio, earnings history, and analyst recommendations.

A motivated consumer could, for example, compare Tesla’s current volume against its 3-month average to see if today’s trading is a hig outlier. If the price is falling while volume is spiking, this suggests stronger signals from sellers rather than just a minor fluctuation. By downloading the historical chart, the user can also see whether similar spikes in the past led to short-term corrections or long-term downtrends. This helps them decide if today’s move is an opportunity or a warning.

2. Bloomberg

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caption: Market overview on Bloomberg Markets, combining indexes, commodities, and headlines.

Bloomberg doesn’t just report numbers; it provides the why behind market moves. Its Markets section includes professional headlines, macroeconomic dashboards, and sector summaries that explain the causes of stock fluctuations.

For instance, if Yahoo Finance shows that Apple’s stock dropped 2% today, Bloomberg might reveal the reason: perhaps a disappointing iPhone sales forecast or broader market weakness tied to interest rate hikes. A consumer could use Bloomberg to connect a single stock’s movement to larger economic themes, like inflation or central bank policy. This helps distinguish between company-specific risks and market-wide pressures.

3. Trading View

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caption: Interactive chart on TradingView, with candlesticks and technical indicators applied.

TradingView offers interactive charts and a library of technical indicators that let users test whether price action aligns with common trading patterns. Unlike Yahoo Finance and Bloomberg, TradingView also incorporates community analysis, where traders share annotated charts and predictions.

A motivated consumer could open Nvidia’s chart and overlay the 50-day and 200-day moving averages. If they see the 50-day crossing below the 200-day (a “death cross”), it may confirm bearish sentiment highlighted in Bloomberg headlines. By adding RSI or MACD, the consumer can further judge whether the stock is overbought or oversold. TradingView transforms raw data into actionable signals by letting users experiment with multiple perspectives.