Gordon Scott has been an active investor and technical analyst or 20+ years. He is a Chartered Market Technician (CMT). A logarithmic price scale is a charting method that shows price changes as ...

The universe is enormous — so vast that it's almost impossible to picture what it might look like in one image. But musician Pablo Carlos Budassi managed to do it by combining logarithmic maps of the ...

Casey Murphy has fanned his passion for finance through years of writing about active trading, technical analysis, market commentary, exchange-traded funds (ETFs), commodities, futures, options, and ...

A logarithm is a mathematical operation that determines how many times a certain number, called the base, is multiplied by itself to reach another number. Because logarithms relate geometric ...

In “When Should I Use Logarithmic Scales in My Charts and Graphs”, I showed the revenues of the top 60 Forbes 500 companies using both linear and logarithmic scales. The log scale spread out the bulk ...

Those skyrocketing curves tell an alarming story. But logarithmic graphs can help reveal when the pandemic begins to slow. By Kenneth Chang The arc of coronavirus cases in Italy is frightening, ...

We humans seem to be born with a number line in our head. But a May 30 study in Science suggests it may look less like an evenly segmented ruler and more like a logarithmic slide rule on which the ...