So why did the price tank all of a sudden and then came back to normal? What does it mean?
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2Related: What happened to Home Depot's Stock in 1988?, which turned out to be an entire year of bad data. – Ben Miller Aug 24 '20 at 21:35
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1What/where is the source of your screentshot? – BruceWayne Aug 25 '20 at 15:08
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@BruceWayne google – user1801879 Aug 25 '20 at 20:02
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@yoozer8 Marked as dupe, since OP accepted a similar answer. Thanks for finding that! – jpaugh Aug 26 '20 at 13:59
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It means a bad data point. Look at other quote providers and you won't see that data point.
You can also see that the "low" for the day is higher than the bad data point.
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Sharp dips like that are almost always bad data. Most of the time that can be verified by looking at Time & Sales.
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