He is a Chartered Market Technician (CMT). A logarithmic price scale is a charting method that shows price changes as percentages rather than absolute dollar amounts, allowing for easier ...

The two most common types of price scales used to analyze price movements are: Logarithmic price scale—also referred to as log—represents price spacing on the vertical or Y-axis dependent on ...

I help people communicate data clearly with graphs. There are two main reasons to use logarithmic scales in charts and graphs. The first is to respond to skewness towards large values; i.e., cases ...

Excel defaults to a linear scale for graphs, but you can easily change it to logarithmic to suit wide data ranges or logarithmic phenomena. The Chart Wizard produces graphs with linear scales.

The data look very different when plotted on what is called a logarithmic scale. In a typical graph, values on the (vertical) y-axis are plotted linearly: 1, 2, 3, and so on, or 10, 20 ...

Magnitudes are based on a logarithmic scale (base 10). What this means is that for each whole number you go up on the magnitude scale, the amplitude of the ground motion recorded by a seismograph goes ...