Stock Market Indices - Barchart.com (2024)

The Major Indices Page presents charts of the four major indices for your selected market (U.S. or Canada) for a quick visual on how each index has moved over the last week. Below the charts, find a table with all of the major indices.

Components Table

The components table shows you the stocks that comprise the index.

Barchart Data Table

Data tables on Barchart follow a familiar format to view and access extensive information for the symbols in the table.

Sort

Pages are initially sorted in a specific order (depending on the data presented). You can re-sort the page by clicking on any of the column headings in the table.

Views

Most data tables contain multiple standard "Views", and each View contains "Links" to each symbol's Quote Overview, Chart, Barchart Opinion, and Technical Analysis page. A View simply presents the same symbols with different columns. Site members can also display the data using anyCustom View. (Simply create a free account, log in, then create and save Custom Views to be used on any data table.) Standard Views on the Index page include:

• Main View: Symbol, Name, Last Price, Change, Percent Change, High, Low, and Time of Last Trade.
• Technical View: Symbol, Name, Last Price, Today's Opinion, 20-Day Relative Strength, 20-Day Historic Volatility, 20-Day Average Volume, 52-Week High and 52-Week Low.
• Performance View: Symbol, Name, Last Price, Weighted Alpha, YTD Percent Change, 1-Month, 3-Month and 1-Year Percent Change.
• Fundamental View: Available only on equity pages, shows Symbol, Name, Market Cap, P/E Ratio (trailing 12 months). Earnings Per Share (trailing 12 months), Net Income, Beta, Annual Dividend, and Dividend Yield.
  Note: For all marketsexcept U.S. equities, fundamental data is not licensed for downloading. Your .csv file will show "N/L" for "not licensed" when downloading from a Canadian, UK, Australian, or European stocks page.
• Mini-Chart View: Available for Barchart Plus and Premier Members, this view displays 12 small charts per page for the symbols shown in the data table. You may change the bar type and time frame for the Mini-Charts as you scroll through the page. The default settings for Mini-Charts are found in your Site Preferences, under "Overview Charts".
• Performance Chart View: This specialized view, available only with a Barchart Plus or Premier Membership, ranks the top and bottom symbols in your watchlist for the time frame chosen (the view defaults to a 5-Day Performance view, with additional choices of Today's performance, 1-Month, 3-Month, 6-Month, 52-Week, and Year-to-Date.) This view will rank a maximum 25 symbols for both top and bottom performance.Equity option symbols are only shown on the "Today's" Performance Chart View.
• Pre-Post Market Data: Available for Barchart Plus and Premier Members, this view will show any pre- or post-market price activity for U.S. equities only.

View Symbol More Data (+)

Unique to Barchart.com, data tables contain an option that allows you to see more data for the symbol without leaving the page. Click the "+" icon in the first column (on the left) to view more data for the selected symbol. Scroll through widgets of the different content available for the symbol. Click on any of the widgets to go to the full page. The "More Data" widgets are also available from the Links column of the right side of the data table.

Horizontal Scroll on Wide Tables

Especially when using a custom view, you may find that the number of columns chosen exceeds the available space to show all the data. In this case, the table must be horizontally scrolled (left to right) to view all of the information. To do this, you can either scroll to the bottom of the table and use the table's scrollbar, or you can scroll the table using your browser's built-in scroll:

• Left-click with your mouse anywhere on the table.
• Use your keyboard's left and right arrows to scroll the table.
• Repeat this anywhere as you move through the table to enable horizontal scrolling.

Flipcharts

Also unique to Barchart, this feature allows you to scroll through all the symbols on the table in a chart view. FlipCharts are a ctool available to Site Members.

Download

Download is a free tool available to Site Members. This tool will download a .csv file for the View being displayed. For dynamically-generated tables (such as a Stock or ETF Screener) where you see more than 1000 rows of data, the download will be limited to only the first 1000 records on the table. For other static pages (such as the Russell 3000 Components list) all rows will be downloaded.

Free members are limited to 1 site download per day. Barchart Plus Members have 10 downloads per day, while Barchart Premier Members may download up to 100 .csv files per day.

Note: For all marketsexcept U.S. equities, fundamental data is not licensed for downloading. Your .csv file will show "N/L" for "not licensed" when downloading from a Canadian, UK, Australian, or European stocks page.

Percentage of Stocks Above Moving Average

For the major indices on the site, this widget shows the percentage of stocks contained in the index that are above their 20-Day, 50-Day, 100-Day, 150-Day, and 200-Day Moving Averages.

In theory, the direction of the moving average (higher, lower or flat) indicates the trend of the market. Its slope indicates the strength of the trend. Longer averages are used to identify longer-term trends. Shorter averages are used to identify shorter-term trends. Many trading systems utilize moving averages as independent variables and market analysts frequently use moving averages to confirm technical breakouts.

When prices are rising they are usually above the average. This is to be expected since the average includes data from the previous, lower priced days. As long as prices remain above the average there is strength in the market.