# How do I read the Trends page?

> Trends shows how your prices and the market moved over a period: the market average, your price index, the price leader and the biggest moves.
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> en | updated 2026-09-28 | https://priceq.io/help/en/understanding-prices/the-trends-page

The Trends page shows how prices moved over time, for your whole range and for single products. Open **Trends** in the menu.

## Choosing what you look at

At the top you pick the period: **30d**, **90d**, **6mo** or **12mo**, or two dates in the calendar. Periods up to a month are drawn per day, longer ones per week. The category menu and **Filter** narrow the page to part of your range.

Only prices in your home currency count. Competitor prices only count when the shop has stock. Your own price always counts.

## The top row

- **Market average · portfolio**: the average competitor price over your products, and how much it changed in the period.
- **You versus the market**: how far your average price sits **above market** or **below market**.
- **index · 100 = market**: your latest price index, averaged over the products where both you and a competitor have a price. See [What does the price index number mean?](/help/en/understanding-prices/the-price-index).
- **Price changes**: how often a price changed in the period, and at how many retailers.

## The charts

**Portfolio versus market** draws **My average price** against the **Market average**, with a band for the **Market spread (cheapest–dearest)**. Days on which too few products were measured are left blank, so one odd day does not look like a market crash.

**Your price index over time** shows the same comparison as one line around 100. Above the line you are dearer than the market.

## Categories, leaders and moves

**Where the market is moving** has one row per category, sorted by the amount under pressure. It shows the market trend, the net movement, **Your position** and the **€ at stake**.

**Price leader over time** names, per week, the shop that was cheapest on the most products. **you** means that was your shop.

**Biggest movements** lists the five competitor price changes with the largest amount in the period. Each says whether the shop **lowered** or **raised** its price and where it now sits: **below your price**, **at your price**, **room to follow** when it is now above you, or **no own price**. **all products → Overview** opens the Overview matrix.

## One product

Type in **Search a product…** or click a move to open one product. You see its price line against the shops, with **Scale** set to **€** or **index 100**. Under the chart you see how far you sit from the cheapest shop, plus the lowest, highest and average price in the period. **To Pricing advice** opens that product on the Repricing page. **Back to portfolio** returns to the overview.

For the full shop-by-shop history of a product, see [Price history of one product](/help/en/understanding-prices/price-history-of-one-product).