Adam Hayes, Ph.D., CFA, is a financial writer with 15+ years Wall Street experience as a derivatives trader. Besides his extensive derivative trading expertise, Adam is an expert in economics and ...

Back when I first started charting the spread of coronavirus I decided not to use a logarithmic scale. I figured that log scales were fine for communicating with other professionals, but most laymen ...

At the end of the DI for a Simple log-scale audio meter, I promised to show how to upgrade it to work better. With these fixes, it now has near-digital performance, with faster response and smoother ...

Odds are you haven't used logarithms since your teacher introduced them to you in high school mathematics, if you can remember back that far. But for investors who count on price charts to gauge stock ...

Two hundred years ago, Missouri was rocked by an earthquake so severe it made the Mississippi River flow backward and set off church bells in Boston more than 1,000 miles away. These details help ...