Hi Rohit,

Thank you once again. I'm such a beginner that I have to work through the examples many times to understand. I was thinking that Moving Average is a financial indicator, but now I see it's in the drop down list, which means it's built-in WL. Whereas RateOfChange is not in the drop down list. I'm going to practice more tonight. Very grateful for your help on this..

Hi Rachel,

the // Normal instruction in any of my searches on how to create a list from a chart

Normal is not creating a list from a chart. FinancialData returns a TimeSeries which is shown in the frontend in graphical form. Normal, when applied to a TimeSeries, returns the list of date/value pairs. In general Normal can be used to look at the underlying data for objects that are represented in graphical/icon form by the frontend. E.g. sa = SparseArray[{{1, 1} -> 1, {2, 2} -> 2, {3, 3} -> 3, {1, 3} -> 4}] Normal@sa

sales = Import["ExampleData/RetailSales.tsv", "Dataset"]
Normal@sales

You can also use TradingChart with a "SimpleMovingAverage" FinancialIndicator. E.g.

TradingChart[{"IBM", {{2022, 1, 1}, {2022, 9, 1}}}, 
 {"BollingerBands",FinancialIndicator["SimpleMovingAverage", 50]}]

The chart is dynamic, hover over it.

If you are new to the Wolfram Language, take a look at the free online interactive book by Stephen Wolfram.