Stat of the Day: Heat Map of Stock Performance Looks Good Today

By Edward Harrison On Jul 22, 2010

Courtesy of FinViz.com, these heat maps give you an idea of the breadth of the stock market rally. Look at the year’s heat map to see what a broader recovery in shares looks like over a longer time frame. My takeaway is that the rally in shares wasn’t that broad-based over the past few weeks but, curiously, given some of the weak data in the US, it is starting to broaden.

Here’s today – very broad-based rally:

Here’s the past week:

And here’s the past month:

Finally, the last year:

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Edward Harrison is a senior Editor at Bloomberg. He is also the founder of Credit Writedowns newsletter, a former career diplomat, investment banker and technology executive with over twenty five years of business experience. He speaks six languages and reads another five, skills he uses to provide a more global perspective. Edward holds an MBA in Finance from Columbia University and a BA in Economics from Dartmouth College.

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6 Comments

J. Powers says 14 years ago

This is an excellent tool for intuitive analysis. Is there a way to work in a representation of volume as well? A broad-based rally, yes–but wasn’t rather a shallow one?
1. Edward Harrison says 14 years ago
  
  Not sure if they do volume metrics that way. Take a look at their site finviz.com. There is definitely a lot more to what they offer. They do a lot of different indicies.

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