Topic 13
Market data literacy
Reading the market's raw material — where the numbers come from and where they mislead.
- 1Real-Time vs Delayed vs End-of-Day Data: What Latency Is, and When It Matters9 min read
- 2How to Read a Quote: OHLC, Volume, and the 52-Week Range9 min read
- 3Adjusted vs Unadjusted Prices: What Splits and Dividends Do to a Chart9 min read
- 4Ticker Symbols, ISIN, CUSIP: How Instruments Are Identified8 min read
- 5Where Market Data Comes From: Exchanges, Consolidated Feeds, and Aggregators10 min read
- 6Where Fundamental Data Comes From: Filings, Standardisation, and Aggregators10 min read
- 7Index Methodology: Weighting, Rebalancing, and Reconstitution10 min read
- 8The Corporate Calendar: Earnings Dates, Ex-Dividend Dates, and Economic Releases9 min read
- 9Level 2 Quotes and Order-Book Data: The Concept9 min read
- 10How Retail Investors Access Data: Platforms and APIs9 min read
- 11Survivorship Bias in Data: Why Dead Companies Matter9 min read