Data4Change Final Project

Patterns in the Stock Market

An analysis of patterns found in the stock market, involving elements like average open and closing price, and total volume

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Problem Statement

As a person interested in finance, I thought it would be nice to use my coding skills to analyze the stock market. It is essential to understand the patterns of the stock market in order to be able to trade well. This project shows some data you could use.

Research Questions

Question 1

How does the average opening price compare to closing price each month of the year?

Question 2

In a specific year(I chose 2020), what proportion of total trading volume comes from each month?

Question 3

How does the Close price change over time?

Conclusion

The data shows that for different topics in the stock market, there will be different levels of variation. There isn't that much of a difference between the average opening price of a stock and the average closing price of the stock, but there is a pretty significant difference between average closing price over the years.