How to use Google trend

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Google trend, as the name, records and reports the search trend during a certain period. So, how can you benefits from them? Below is my sharing on analyse the behaviour of MPF’s price.

The fact….

While reading the MPF reports, there is a huge drop between 2013/1/1 ~ 2013/6/30. Due to curiosity (and I bought a lot), I would like to find out reasons for this drop.

Start working….

Before using google trend, it is better for us to know the starting point of the drops.

The peak value is around 13.4160 HKD and it seems starting at the beginning of the 2013. By the help of filters from the finance report, we get below graph.

April 2013 is the starting point.

Heading to Gooooooogle trend

OK. Let’s look at the overview of year 2013 in Hong Kong.

In 2013, we could see h7n9 was a hot topic in Hong Kong.

To confirm the drops and H7N9

How can we link up these two facts?

Let’s filter results by setting date from 2013/3/1 to 2014/1/1.

H7N9 is the only one which affect the MPF’s price.

Let’s see the searching trend of H7N9.

Perfect match. According the facts that MPF’s price drop at April 2013 and H7N9 searching trend starting at April 2013, we can see the relationships between them and that’s the critical factor for the poor drops.

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