Data visualization · Price history study
Tesla, 2020–2023: four years of one volatile stock
The same 1,006 trading days seen five ways: the price path, how deep each fall went, when volatility clustered, how each month finished, and what a typical day looks like.
Price path
Daily bars, split-adjusted. Shares traded sit in the lower panel on their own scale.
Drawdown from the running peak
How far the price stood below its previous best, every day.
Rolling volatility
Standard deviation of daily moves over the trailing 60 days, annualised.
Month by month
Change from the last price of one month to the last price of the next. Blue for gains, red for losses.
One year in focus
Pick a year to see its path with the year's peak and trough marked.
Daily moves over time
Day-on-day change in the last price. Large moves arrive in clusters.
Distribution of daily moves
Bars are the observed days; the line is a normal curve with the same mean and spread. The tails are fatter than the curve allows.
About the data
- Source
- Daily bars for TSLA from Yahoo Finance, 2 January 2020 to 29 December 2023, adjusted for the 2020 and 2022 stock splits.
- Daily move
- Percentage change in the last traded price from one session to the next. Tesla pays no dividend, so no further adjustment applies.
- Volatility
- Sample standard deviation of daily moves, multiplied by √252.
- Purpose
- A visualization study. Nothing on this page is investment advice.