Stock charts come in two main forms%3A Linear and logarithmic Linear charts treat all dollar price changes equally Professional investors look at both types of charts to understand stock moves USA ...

First is the adversarial duo of Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump, who faced off for the first (and likely last) time in a debate topped the linear chart this week.

This is usually the default chart style. Linear price scale—also referred to as arithmetic—represents price on the Y-axis using equidistant spacing between the designated prices. Linear charts ...

Yesterday's Chart Of The Day should be on a log scale for that kind of data. Gives it a different feel (and prompts other questions). Red is linear and on the left axis, blue is log and on the right.

It’s not, of course, because the the distance between 10K and 100K increases on a log scale just like the rest of the chart. But most people simply don’t understand that. The linear chart ...