Play the Chevron chart challenge
Chevron (CVX), Oil and gas. This challenge is 200 sessions, from May 22, 2008 to March 9, 2009, plus 60 earlier sessions of context. You picked the company on this page. On the chart the name and the dates are hidden, and the price is rescaled so the close before session 1 equals 100.
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Chevron over the same crisis dates, May 22, 2008 to March 9, 2009, is the oil chart: −42.8%, a −44.6% drop, and the low on March 5, 2009. The worst session is October 15, 2008 (−12.5%). The first half (−32.7%) does more of the damage than the second (−15.0%). Crude collapsed in this period; the stock is the slower instrument, and it still withholds a bottom until the window is almost over.
What you trade
Buy and hold over these 200 sessions finishes at −42.8%, and the drop from a high inside the window reaches −44.6%. The low is session 198 (March 5, 2009). Beating that benchmark depends on how much of the decline you sit out or sell short, and on whether you get back in if the chart turns. The worst session is October 15, 2008, at −12.5%.
This page names Chevron because this challenge is that company. The daily puzzle and a random practice game keep the company hidden. Inside this round the chart still hides the name and the dates until you finish.
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A lesson that fits this chart
ATR (Average True Range) — How much the price moves per day