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Well, the site's called MarketWatch—of course you can use it to watch the markets! We'll look at three of the most common market-tracking activities—tracking the overall market, tracking specific industries, and tracking individual securities.
General Market Performance
The best place to track overall market performance is the Market Overview page (Investor Tools O Market Overview). As you can see in Figure 13-2, this page displays a ton of summary market performance information for all major indexes—the Dow Jones Industrials, NASDAQ, S&P 500, NYSE, AMEX, Russell 2000, you name it. All essential data is presented and the most-active securities are listed. This is a great page to get a snapshot of market performance—it's worth bookmarking in your browser.
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Specific Industry Performance
To track the performance of specific industries, go to Investor Tools O Industries. This page lists the 10 best- and worst-performing industries and includes links to more detailed data about specific sectors (consumer, financial, industrial, and so on).
Individual Security Performance
You can check the current price of any security by entering the ticker symbol into the quote box located at the top left of most MarketWatch pages and then clicking the arrow button. If you don't know the symbol for a specific security, click the Find Symbol link below the quote box; this takes you to the symbol lookup page where you can search for symbols by name.
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Each quote page features a variety of different views that are all accessible from the pull-down list next to the quote box. The basic Quote/Chart/News view, shown in Figure 13-3, displays a variety of pricing information along with key ratios. Other views provide more detailed information.
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