Title: ManoStick is worth a second look M Siluvairajah, ManoStick Limited, United Kingdom Description: This is a short summary of how

w ManoStick empowers financial data visualization. ManoStick is registered trademark of ManoStick Limited, UK

HEAD START When we talk about data visualization, the first things come into mind are candlestick and bar as those are the famous chart type used to create stock charts. These second generation charts use open, high, low and close price [OHLC] to populate as shown on figure 3. However, the significance of the open and close price faded away with technical advancement and change in investors & traders behaviour, (you can see daily report of open and closing price on the statistics section at www.manostick.com) which made the need for better financial visualization. The result is the invention of ManoStick, an advance charting concept which is able to visualize OHLC as well as volume. This is how ManoStick mirrors the market psychology into the computer screens. ManoStick has five microstructures, each representing 20% of the traded volume which are Upper Tail, Upper Body, Middle Body, Lower Body and Lower Tail as shown on figure 1. ManoStick analysis is a translation of market psychology and ManoStick analysis is able to bring forth many hidden secrets and trading patterns. Just a glance on figure 2, shows you the high demand, a sellers market, this is just a beginning. Figure 3 shows, how daily ManoStick is able to reveal many more secrets.

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We can use ManoStick horizontally as shown on figure 4a or figure 4b, which is visualizing the time-volume data. This way we can easily find out what hour of the day there are more trades going on. These are the hourly charts for Apple [NASDAQ:AAPL], as you can see, between 9:00 and 11:00, there were only 20% of trades going on while between 11:00 and 14:00, there were 60% of trades were going on. Markets move according to the supply & demand and ManoStick able shows it inside out. ManoStick shadow is another major feature, as you can see on figure 5. In this figure you see an hourly stock chart for Google [NASDAQ:GOOG] for 23rd June 2011, created with ManoStick & ManoStick Shadow. While ManoStick visualize the hourly data, ManoStick Shadow visualizes the accumulated data from the beginning of the day. Again, ManoStick Analysis is able to answer questions such as; Whether the current price over the days average or below? Is there are strong resistance or support? Is the resistance or support clearly broke?

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ManoStick charts can be used for general data visualization as well as financial data visualization, where you need comparison within and remember even single ManoStick is able to visualize multi structural data. For further study: ManoStick: An Ariel View of the Stock Market, ISBN 978-0956395603, paperback 2009 London An Introduction to ManoStick. An eBook available for free download at http://www.manostick.com/financial-data-visualization.html#free-download A chart for general and complicated data visualization published on the International Journal of Scientific and Engineering Research, ISSN 2229-5518. Path2Profit advanced stock charting software which implements ManoStick charting concept. Download at http://www.manostick.com/stock-charting-software.html

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