The market overview lets you quickly compare price movements on different timescales.
The overview shows three gauges, for the price movement during the last 60 minutes, 24 hours, and 5 days.
Each gauge shows the current price in relation to the high-low range (with prices). A gauge which is
mostly blue means that the current price is towards the top end of the range; orange means that the price
is towards the lower end of the range. The inner bar then shows the open price for the period, and the
corresponding % change.
Below the gauges are three simple candle charts, letting you compare short-term market activity on
the M5, M15 and H1 timeframes.
The FTSE 100 is a share index of the 100 largest companies on the London Stock Exchange. (There are also other FTSE indices such as the FTSE 250
and FTSE All-Share). Although the FTSE is a broad barometer of the strength of the UK economy and of investor confidence, the FTSE/LSE
contains many companies whose earnings derive wholly or largely from overseas activity. Therefore, the value of the FTSE is affected
by global business conditions rather than just the state of the UK economy, and by the strength of sterling.
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