The Day's Poster
The Tuesday, August 18 session at a glance: the Nasdaq 100's hundred companies drawn as one city skyline.
Down Day: The Nasdaq 100 Fell 1.69%; Only Health Care and Consumer Staples Rose
Nasdaq 100− 1.69%
The Nasdaq 100 Skyline
- Building Width: Market Value
- Height: Daily Change
- Above the Horizon Rose, Below Fell
Each building is a Nasdaq 100 company; the buildings stand in sector districts, from the strongest district to the weakest. Tap a building or step through with the arrow keys.
Highlights
- Up and Down
- 4556
- Strongest Sector
- + 1.62%
- Health Care
- Weakest Sector
- − 1.91%
- Technology
- Other Indices
- S&P 500− 0.68%Dow Jones− 0.24%Russell 2000− 1.26%
The headline is built from these numbers by fixed rules: a broad day when at least 70% of the companies that moved went the same way, a narrow day when the index went one way and most companies the other; flat when the Nasdaq 100 closed within ±0.10%. The sector order comes from the districts' changes.
Changes are the Aug 18 close against the Aug 17 close; after-hours trading is not included.
A building's width is proportional to the square root of the company's market value at the Aug 18 close (using today's share count): the square root keeps the gap of several hundred times between the largest and smallest company readable.
The height scale runs to ±9.2%; buildings beyond it are cut at the top, with their real values in their labels and in the list.
Districts are GICS sectors; sectors with fewer than five companies are grouped as Other Sectors. A district's change is its companies' average weighted by market value.
The indices are tracked through their funds (QQQ, SPY, DIA, IWM); changes are fund price changes, excluding dividends.
Breadth is counted with today's Nasdaq 100 member list; on a past day a few companies not yet in the index may be counted and departed ones left out.
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