Casey Murphy has fanned his passion for finance through years of writing about active trading, technical analysis, market commentary, exchange-traded funds (ETFs), commodities, futures, options, and ...

Gordon Scott has been an active investor and technical analyst or 20+ years. He is a Chartered Market Technician (CMT). A logarithmic price scale is a charting method that shows price changes as ...

Complete Explanation A logarithm is the power which a certain number is raised to get another number. Before calculators and various types of complex computers were invented it was difficult for ...

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 in which one or a few points are much larger than the ...

In “When Should I Use Logarithmic Scales in My Charts and Graphs”, I showed the revenues of the top 60 Forbes 500 companies using both linear and logarithmic scales. The log scale spread out the bulk ...

Those skyrocketing curves tell an alarming story. But logarithmic graphs can help reveal when the pandemic begins to slow. By Kenneth Chang The arc of coronavirus cases in Italy is frightening, ...

The universe is enormous — so vast that it's almost impossible to picture what it might look like in one image. But musician Pablo Carlos Budassi managed to do it by combining logarithmic maps of the ...