Numerical Computing with Python

Gaining perspective on stock prices

Investors who have purchased long stock positions would obviously like to sell stocks at or near their all-time highs. This, of course, is very difficult to do in practice, especially if a stock price has only spent a small portion of its history above a certain threshold. We can use boolean indexing to find all points in time that a stock has spent above or below a certain value. This exercise may help us gain perspective as to what a common range for some stock to be trading within.