Most Excellent Investor Watchlist Performance Comparison to S&P 500 – Glossary

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Column Usage Description

Note: The Performance Summary column descriptions apply to each of the individual watchlists in our membership area as well as the combined Performance Summary for all watchlists.

Comparison v S&P 500:  This column identifies the time frame for the summary.

From Date: This column identifies the from date in the time frame shown in each row.

Thru Date: This column identifies the through date in the time frame shown in each row.

Avg Watchlist Stock Cnt (Average Watchlist Stock Count):  For the Daily Summary of Combined Watchlists Comparison to S&P 500 this column shows the average count of stocks for all of our watchlists in the time frame.  For the individual watchlist performance reports this is the number of stocks only for the watchlist under which the performance summary appears.

Avg S&P 500 Stock Cnt: This is the number of stocks within the current S&P 500, which may be more than 500 because it includes two share classes of stock from 3 of its component companies.

Avg Watch List Stock Cnt % Of S&P 500: The percentage of the stocks in our watch lists compared to the number of stocks in the S&P 500.

Avg Watch List Avg DayHi Gain%: The average price performance gain from the regular trading hours Open to the day's High achieved by stocks in our watchlist(s).

Avg S&P 500 Avg DayHi Gain%: The average price performance gain from the regular trading hours Open to the day's High achieved by stocks in the S&P 500 index.

Avg DayHi Gain% Diff: The difference in average price performance gain from the Open to the day's High achieved by stocks in our watchlist(s) compared to the price performance gain from the Open to the day's High achieved by the stocks in the S&P 500 index.

Avg DayHi Gain% Diff%: The percentage difference of the Avg DayHi Gain% Diff from the S&P 500.

Avg Watch list Avg Dollar Volume: Most Excellent Investor watchlist(s) stock's average dollar volume during the time frame of each row.

Avg S&P 500 Dollar Volume: Average dollar volume of the stocks of the S&P 500 during the time frame of each row.

Avg Dollar Volume Diff: The difference in dollar volume between the stocks of our watchlists and the stocks of the S&P 500.

Avg Dollar Volume Diff%: The percentage difference in dollar volume between the stocks of our watchlists and the stocks of the S&P 500.