Questions tagged [price]
The cost of a good or service.
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Price matching with Limit Orders
I have basic question concerning the stock market. I placed a Limit-Sell Order of 500 stocks at $1.45 for Stock X while it was trading below that. Two days later I woke up to all shares being sold for ...
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Is $3,7 USD for 340 grams/11.9 oz of “creamy” Skippy-brand peanut butter expensive from an American's perspective? [closed]
Right now, in Sweden, a small-feeling 340 g (which is apparently 11.9 oz) jar of "Skippy creamy peanut butter" is, translated to current USD value, $3.7 USD. I think it has been around this ...
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Broker Reversed a Sell That Filled
I had a market sell order that went through last Friday morning, 06/05/2020 at 11 am.
It has an Order Id, Security ID, and CUSIP ID.
Today the broker removed it from my account and took the money ...
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What is the use of having access to Level 2 quotes as a retail investor?
I am a small retail investor. I recently opened a new stock brokerage account. The stock brokerage firm is offering free Level 2 quotes for NYSE and NASDAQ. Judging by the general availability of this ...
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Very short-term drop in stock price
When looking at stock price charts, you sometimes see a large drop in the price for just a short amount of time.
Is this simply an error in the presentation of the chart, or has the price actually ...
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Can you move stock prices through a single orders?
Imagine that a stock costs 100$, you set a limit buy order at $105. Wouldn't this cause the bid/ask spread to jump upwards? Of course this order would get filled immediately, but shouldn't it get ...
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How do option prices change so quickly when stock price moves up or down?
It would take me at least 3 seconds to modify an existing order. When stock price rises or falls quickly, how do buyers and sellers change their prices so quickly?
Do they really calculate option ...
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Historical stock price of Anadarko Corporation Jan. 8 and May 26, 1983 [duplicate]
I am looking for the common stock price of Anadarko Corporation for January 8 and May 26, 1983.
Can anyone help?
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Could I make money off of the negative oil price?
I saw the price of oil did something at about 1 PM Eastern time that is really bizarre: it went negative. This means that you get paid to take oil off the field. But, the oil price is negative now, ...
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Net asset value (NAV) or Exchange price, which one should I care of?
I was presented to the concept of NAV recently:
https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-difference-between-the-price-and-the-NAV-of-mutual-funds
I see some investment tools use NAV value and other use ...
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Ameritrade price close difference
Using the Ameritrade app, the close price ( market is closed ) shows a close price of $5.26.
The actual close price is $5.78 in other apps and a simple web search.
Is there a reason for this?
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What's the intrinsic value of stocks [duplicate]
I am a financial noob. I wonder what are some intrinsic value of stocks. While purchasing a stock, I expect that the price of it will go up, and I'll sell it to gain the price difference. However, the ...
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Why would a seller at an auction set their reserve price hidden?
I've encountered auctions online where the seller has set their reserve price hidden. What are the benefits to the seller that would cause them to do so?
As a buyer, if I see an item I like, I may ...
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Price difference between Acc and Dist ETFs
There can be huge differences between the prices of the accumulating and distributing versions of ETFs following the same index.
For instance, as of 17 Jan 2020, the NAV of the accumulating version ...
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What controls stock price? [duplicate]
Before everyone starts explosively typing essays about why a stock's price is virtually impossible to predict, I want to iterate that I am not asking how to know what a stock's price will be. I am ...
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Two realtors estimating different price ranges
I'm looking into investing into a specific apartment. It hasn't been publicly listed as for sale yet, I just happen to know the current owner. The owner asked me to do my own research and make him an ...
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What Actually Determines Stock Prices from a Given Broker?
When you look up a stock's price at a broker, where does that number come from, and who decides if it goes up or down?
Sometimes it's said that "supply & demand" determines stock prices. This is ...
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Price of thing going up
I read about price differences of things throughout years. I read that in 1988 gas costed about .90 cents per gallon; In 2018 it cost about 2.90 per gallon. So in 30 years I think that came to 222.22.%...
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Buy at least three at a lower price?
I need a product from a shop in the US and the unit price is about $100. But the shop has an offer saying if I buy three or more units, the unit price is only about $80.00. The shop also has very good ...
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Non-delivery of forward contract
What options there are for protection of non-delivery or non-payment for deliverable forward contracts in the absence of clearing house? With volatile assets the spot price can be very different from ...
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Why does the 1D difference not start from 0%?
I'm trying to understand %change in price charts on Morningstar.
Here is a %change in price for 2 securities in the last 1D.
Why is it that neither of them started from zero? What's going on here? ...
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What types of resource/mining stocks are counter-recession?
I'm trying to learn the method behind the madness that explains some resource/mining stocks' performance during the last recession (December 2007 - June 2009).
SPY: -38.15% (for comparison)
NRP: -34....
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why is the opening price of a stock sometimes different when you are working with 5 minute candles and 1 day candles?
Take a look at apple on tradingview. On the 6 of May, the opening price of apple with 1-day candles is $204.29, however, when I look at the opening price with 5-minute candles, the opening price was $...
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BITCOIN: on a chart what does it mean for the USD price to be higher then marketcap?
I'm looking at this chart and i don't rely understand why the USD price is at times lower and at times higher then the market-cap.
I would assume they are supposed to go in parallel since they are in ...
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Is the current stock price the last bid price or the last ask price, or what?
The answer to this question states: "current stock price … is actually the price of the last trade. It is a historical price…"
The last trade had a buyer and seller. The buyer paid the "ask" price, ...
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CFD trading in commodities, is it safe to hold?
I am looking into trading and created a demo account for this trading website just to mess around a little and try to get some understanding of how it all works. I made an order to open at a set price....
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My telecom provider is offering a discount before a predicted drop in phone price; why?
Currently I have a 2 year phone plan that ends in early October. This plan came with a smartphone – an iPhone SE – so every month I pay for both minutes/data and the phone. Since Apple predictably ...
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What is going on with my stock price?
There are several similar questions on this site but I believe that this one might have a different source than just a reporting glitch. For some reason, several sources are reporting a drop in the ...
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Difference in Closing Price of Security between NSE and BSE
Today date is '08-Aug-2018'. When I am looking for Previous Closing price of RELIANCE security from NSE and BSE exchanges, It differs one and each other.
BSE says Previous closing price of RELIANCE ...
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What is a good measure of liquidity for a stock?
Some stocks are traded a lot and the price graph looks continuous.
Others just jump all the time.
Which metric could I use to filter the stocks that are not continuous? I don't think volume helps ...
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Why would a CD Rate be higher than a Corporate Bond rate?
In looking at my brokerage account for fixed income products, I was looking at both CDs and Corporate Bonds. I was surprised to see that the best 1-year CDs had a higher interest rate than any AAA or ...
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How to project monthly payments for Verizon plan?
This may be off topic. Though, it didn't seem to conflict with this community's bylaws:
I want to know how to get an absolutely clear picture of monthly spending on a Verizon plan. I've been told by ...
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How do traders in hyperinflation economies know how much to inflate their prices?
Reading some of the accounts of the last days of the Weimar Republic (as well as more recent articles about the declining Venezuelan economy), I was struck by the fact that traders and sellers seem to ...
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Why are some medium term UK government bond (gilt) prices seemingly so disparate?
Looking at UK government bond prices and picking out one example of what I mean:
Coupon Maturity Trading price
Treasury 8% 2021 8 07-Jun-21 123.08
Treasury 4,3/4% ...
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How to determine if a bid-ask spread is “good” or “bad”?
Is it possible to weight the bid-ask spread? I'll explain ...
In the moment, for a share X, to trade I use the price, volume, $ volume, # trades, % chg and the bid-ask spread (BAS). To make day ...
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How to calculate stock price with EPS and outstanding shares
How do you calculate stock price with only EPS and outstanding shares, and market cap available?
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sorry forgot to mention, i was trying to get future stock price based on financial guidance of ...
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Why is XYZ $70.5 strike call more expensive than $68 strike call?
The link below shows the February 16 call option listing for company XYZ.
I used to think that, the higher the strike price, the cheaper the call option. Obviously, the price pattern for this ...
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Adjusted Historical Stock Prices? [closed]
I'm currently doing a university project which required historical stock price data that is adjusted for splits and dividends. I need the adjusted open, close, high, and low. However, all sources I've ...
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Price return after announcement [closed]
Is it GUARANTEED that prices will return to their original price after a spike, such as after an NFP announcement?
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Are option prices whimsical?
Presumably, as in stocks, option prices are dictated by laws of supply and demand. If the same assumption is valid for options, especially standard options, how does one reconcile that set-up with a ...
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Can the stock price go up even if no one is buying?
Let's assume there's this random company (XYZ)--that few are aware of--is selling stocks and they're doing really well. If their stock price is at $50 and no one is buying, will it still go up?
Do ...
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Understanding the price value in coinmarketcap.com
How do we read the the value associate with a currency pair? For example CAN/BTC:
In the standard currency world, isn't this supposed to be 1 CAN is equal to 927.63 BTC? Obviously this statement is ...
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Why do Ethereum and Bitcoin have very similar charts?
I have noticed today that Bitcoin (BTC) and Ethereum (ETH) charts look almost the same.
Why are they so correlated?
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Why do Big Stock Players trade more in the last few minutes of the trading day?
I was watching a stock movement and noticed something couldn't understand! The lowest price in last few days of that stock was $1.61, and it was during the day long either, and volume traded was ...
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How can I find a company's P/E ratio based on its given EPS and the P/E ratios of other companies? [closed]
This is the question that I couldn't solve:
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Why the order was not filled though there was a last price at the moment, but no bid price?
On the Line price chart I see the last trade price was 18,26 with the volumes of 200. At the same time the best bid price is 18 and the best ask price is 18,29. I have placed an odd lot to sell 47 ...
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Are median London prices noticeable higher than the rest of the UK?
It is common knowledge that London prices are much higher than that of the rest of the UK. However, I have heard that this isn't strictly true; the prices of most typical purchases from food and drink,...
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Asking price went through the roof
I'm fairly new to this and recently I bought a stock for a couple cents a share and recently when I went to go buy more their asking price went to about 2,000 a share? Later on during the week I went ...
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What's the point of Ford loosening financing requirements?
Ford has recently announced that they will now allow buyers without credit score to obtain auto credit. Apparently there is even a special discount on new cars for people with low credit score. Why do ...
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How Emini/Minifuture price is set against its underlaying instrument?
I'm tracking tick bid/ask price of an instrument MINI L OMX AVA 191, that is every change in the bid/ask price of this Emini or what is called in Sweden "Mini futures", against its underlying ...
