Stock Market Trading and Investing Tools: What is Stock Market Metadata?
What is stock metadata?
Simply put, metadata is data about data. And when properly understood and interpreted, stock market metadata, also simply referred to as stock metadata, can help you imagine what is happening to a company’s stocks. So if a trading trend is developing, one of the tools you can use to spot a trend as it progresses would be the stock market metadata.
Do you work with stock metadata?
When you go online, you find a wide variety of stock charts, current and historical stock market results, and a growing number of online news sources. But finding something in the stock metadata is challenging.
To get a better idea of how this type of information can be used, consider any of the following scenarios:
- You are planning to buy shares in a company and you want to get an idea during what 15 minute period of the trading day the shares statistically trade at their lowest points.
- You want to sell your shares and you want to get an idea of the best time of day to execute your trade
- You want to know the iterations of the various price range differences for a stock to help you schedule your trade and get a price that is advantageous to you.
- You want to buy or sell a large block of stocks, and you want to see a breakdown of the different times of the day when the volume of shares traded for certain stocks is at both its highest and lowest.
The answers to these and many other questions can be found online and by searching for it. I use Google and look for the terms stock market metadata or stock market metadata that returns links to all the relevant information. Stock metadata reports are unique. For example, you can easily see the relationships that exist between the opening and closing values of the day’s stock prices. You can also see what the values are for the other days, day after day.
These reports can cover a specific date range for the business being submitted. And, with the availability of multiple arrays of values for the different categories of groups within each of the arrays, there is more than enough data to complete a thorough analysis. This is easy to see when looking at a report.
Used as an analysis tool, stock metadata can also be used to show stock market trading activity covering 15 minute blocks of time. Statistically speaking, you can see quickly.
- Time periods in which the highest and lowest prices were reached
- Time periods in which the highest and lowest trading volumes were reached
It also provides clear answers to questions that span any time period (days, months, or years) such as:
- How many times during each of the 15-minute periods during normal trading hours have the shares traded at the highest for the day?
- How about at the end of the day?
- What times of the day registered the highest volume of operations?
- How about lower trading volume?
Why is this type of information important? Statistically speaking, it identifies the best potential time of day to buy or sell stocks. When you learn to use stock market metadata, you realize that:
- History tends to repeat itself
- The numbers don’t lie and
- Fashion is your friend.
Previously, the general public had not been able to easily locate a viable source of stock metadata and stock metadata. Now that has been changing. When you search for any of those specific terms, you are sure to find the information presented on the source sites or via links to articles written on this topic.
Look for sites that also feature features about companies listed on major North American stock exchanges. This includes numerous links to key sources of standard stock market information, as well as a selection of stock market metadata reports.
When choosing to review a featured company, make sure the links included are to some of the best sites available online with key information on the stock market. Do you also have stock metadata reports for each company you offer?
Look for reports that are published every day of the week, Monday through Friday. Typically, the standard report titles listed below also have corresponding links to site pages that explain and describe the content of each report.
- Daily historical metadata detail
- Daily summary of historical metadata
- 15 minute metadata detail
- 15 minute metadata summary
- 15 minute high-low counts
Does using stock metadata work?
Stock charts present graphical images about a company’s stock performance. There are several patterns to learn about. These must be understood and interpreted correctly. This can get quite complicated. And when used correctly, they can be quite effective for stock trading and investing.
The advantage of values metadata is that you use something you’ve been using your whole life: numbers. If you know how to do simple addition and subtraction, and you know how to count, then you can use and understand metadata.
Some people even brag about using stock metadata to predict price results. See the following link to Yahoo! message board for Morgan Stanley stocks.
It was posted after lunch on Friday, October 9, 2009 to this Yahoo! message board regarding the closing price of Morgan Stanley stock on the day. It was developed using specific selection criteria compared to the Daily Metadata Historical Detail Report for MS Actions from Action Metadata Reports available online for people to use. As you read the entry, you will see that if the Bulls rule at the end of the day, the prediction was that the stock would close at 32.18. Well, MS actually ended the day at 32.09, but a few seconds after closing, the first trade in after hours trading was at, are you ready for this, 32.18? Talk about making a good prediction. I will let you be the judge.