Historical Bear Market Contractions

Barry Ritholtz continues his track record at finding and sharing interesting and useful charts that provide new perspectives at looking at important data. You can find the full post at:
The Big Picture Historical Bear Market Contractions

I liked the creative way that the width of the bars in this chart shows the second dimension of length of the contraction period.

Comparing Nasdaq to S & P - another nice chart

Here's another nice chart from: MarketBeat Blog - WSJ.com : Getting Technical on Tech comparing the Nasdaq indesx (NDX) to the S & P index over the past 10 days.



These kinds of simple two way comparisons create charts that are easy to read and understand.

Nice Chart of the impact of Apple's Launch

Nice Chart. simple, direct, powerful. The proverbial one that's worth a thousand words all on its own.



Hat tip again to Barry Ritholtz over at The Big Picture for an excellent chart ("via Andrew' via Yahoo charts) today showing the impact of Apple's Launch announcements today on the intra-day price of Apple's stock compared to some of its competitors (Palm & Rimm)