Play the Walmart chart challenge
Walmart (WMT), Retail. This challenge is 200 sessions, from March 17, 2017 to December 29, 2017, 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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Walmart from March 17, 2017 to December 29, 2017 is the last 200 sessions in this dataset, and they rise +41.3%. 123 closes are up, the most of any challenge here. The low is session 6 (March 24, 2017). The drop from the high is −8.8%. The worst day, June 16, 2017, is −4.7%. The second half (+21.0%) is a bit stronger than the first (+16.8%). It is a clean uptrend into the end of the data.
What you trade
Buy and hold makes +41.3% and the deepest drop from a high is −8.8%. 123 of 199 closes are higher. The first 100 sessions are +16.8% and the last 100 are +21.0%. On a path this steady, extra trades are the usual way to fall behind the benchmark.
This page names Walmart 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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