What Is Stock Metadata?

Simply stated, metadata is data about data. And when properly understood and interpreted, stock market metadata, also simply referred to as stock metadata, can give you the edge you need to help you picture what's happening with a company's stock. So if there's a trading trend developing, one of the tools you can use to spot a trend as it moves along would be stock metadata.

Working with Stock Metadata?

When you go online, you find vast varieties of stock charts, current and historical stock market results, and an increasing number of online news sources. But finding anything on stock metadata is challenging.

In order to get more of a feel how stock metadata can be used, consider any of the following scenarios:

• You're planning to buy shares in a company and you want to have an idea during what 15-minute period of the trading day do shares statistically trade at their lowest points
• You want to sell your shares and you want to have an idea of the best time of the day to execute your trade
• You want to know the iterations of the various price range differences for a stock to help you time your trade and get a price that's advantageous to you
• You want to buy or sell a large block of shares and you want to see a breakdown of the different times of the day when the volume of shares traded for certain stock is both at its highest and lowest

Answers to these and many other questions can be found by reading the topic on stock metadata reports.

Stock metadata reports are unique. For example, you can easily see the relationships that exist between the Open and Close values of stock prices for the day. You can also see what the values are for the other days, day after day.

These reports can cover a specific date range for the company being featured. And, with the availability of multiple arrays of values for the different group categories within each of the arrays, there's more than a sufficient amount of data there to complete a thorough analysis. This is easy to see when you look at a report.

Stock metadata can also be used to show market trading activity for shares covering 15-minute blocks of time. Statistically speaking, you can quickly see

• Time periods when highest and lowest prices were reached
• Time periods when highest and lowest trading volumes were reached

Metadata answers numerous questions spanning any period of time (days, months or years) like:

• How many times during each of the 15-minute periods during normal trading hours have shares traded at the high of the day?
• How about at the low of the day?
• What times of the day recorded the highest volume of trades?
• How about the lowest volume of trades?

Why is this type of stock metadata important? Statistically speaking, it identifies the potential best time of the day to buy or sell shares. When you learn to use metadata, you come to realize that:

• History tends to repeat itself
• Numbers don't lie, and
• The trend is your friend.

These statements are easy to understand. Stock metadata makes it simple to prove them true.

Until now, the general public has not been able to easily locate a viable source for stock metadata and stock market metadata. That is until now with Stock-Market-Keywords.com and its Bulls-with-Bears page changing all that. And the good new is that Bulls-with-Bears page already has numerous links to different sources of standard stock market information and is unique with its offering of stock metadata reports.

See today’s featured company. Not only are links included to some of the best sites for stock market information, you can access up to 5 distinct stock metadata reports shown listed below for each company being featured there today. These reports are published every day of the week, Monday to Friday. Click on any of the report titles below for a complete description of it.

1. Daily Historical Metadata Detail
2. Daily Historical Metadata Summary
3. 15-minute Metadata Detail
4. 15-minute Metadata Summary
5. 15-minute Hi-Low Counts

Furthermore, while you on the Bulls-with-Bears page, you can also get to previous featured companies and find their corresponding reports for them.

Does Using Stock Metadata Work?

Stock charts present graphical images about a company's stock performance. There are multiple patterns to learn about. These must be understood and correctly interpreted. When used properly, they can be quite effective for stock trading and investing purposes.

The advantage of stock metadata is that it uses something that you have been using all of your life: numbers. If you know how to do simple addition and subtraction, and you know how to count, then you can use metadata.

Here’s actual proof of stock metadata producing results. Check out the following link to the Yahoo! message board for Morgan Stanley stock. It’s a direct result of the analysis I completed using stock metadata as my source.

After lunch on Friday, October 9, 2009, I submitted my prediction regarding the closing price of the day for Morgan Stanley shares. I developed the number by using specific selection criteria against the Daily Historical Metadata Detail report for MS stock. When you read the entry I posted, you'll see I stated that if Bulls ruled at the end of the day, the stock would close at 32.18.

Well MS actually closed at 32.09 but a few seconds later, the first transaction in after hours trading was at, are you ready for this, 32.18. Talk about making an accurate prediction. I’ll let you be the judge.

Stan Pokutylowicz