Just ran a few calcs and I got the same numbers as the ASX website.
Heres how I did it:
29th August, last price = 0.64 (this becomes youre yesterdays close) lets call it pc (previous close)
30th August, last price = 0.67 (this becomes youre current price) let call it cp
therefore: ((cp-pc)/pc) * 100= % change
((0.67-0.64)/0.64) *100 = 4.69% as per asx
29th August, last price = 0.64 (this becomes youre yesterdays close) lets call it pc (previous close)
30th August, last price = 0.67 (this becomes youre current price) let call it cp
therefore: ((cp-pc)/pc) * 100= % change
((0.67-0.64)/0.64) *100 = 4.69% as per asx
That's interesting because I get 4.6875 not 4.69, are you rounding it up?
I did do a another calculation today and got similar result to the above and the asx site (are they rounding as well?):
Last
02 Sep 2013 0.730 8.96%
30 Aug 2013 0.670 4.69%
They (the ASX) should have the previous days close at the top of the page where they have Last, %, Bid, Offer, High, Low, Volume.
The same with brokers they should have the Open/Close on the top of the quote page instead of having to go searching through historical data, at least the last five days would be a start.
If the same info is available through charts, like candle stick charts that's ok I guess.
I think that is sarcasm, no? I think there is more to trading than the open/close prices and one can not possibly trade just off this information alone.
I think that is sarcasm, no? I think there is more to trading than the open/close prices and one can not possibly trade just off this information alone.
PS: the method of calculation seems to be rather similar to that suggested in the percentage difference in NTA/Shareprice for LIC/ETF and the same thread starter as well. Hmm, Mrs Watts my Grade 6 teacher would have been most disappointed.