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How prices in stock market changes in accordance with demand and supply [duplicate]
Let's assume there is a listed company x. Currently it has 100 shares issued to trade in free float market. Current price of stock is let say 10. Now please let me know if I purchase one share of ...
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Are counterfeit shares and the "short ladder attacks" purporting to use them, real?
Are counterfeit shares and the "short ladder attacks" purporting to use them, real?
Hi, long-time SE user here. As I would like to attract users with actual industry experience or expertise, ...
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Are spot market ,regular market and ready market same in stock trading if not then what is the difference?
Are spot market ,regular market and ready market same in stock trading if not then what is the difference ? and is short selling margin trading ?
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What happens with the "long" buyer of a stock when somebody else's short fails (that is, unlimited loss bankrupts short seller)
I am a long buyer. That is, I buy and hold and essentially never let go (my profits come from dividends).
What happens when I buy a stock on the market that turned out to be somebody else's short, ...
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How does the person lending shares to the short selller protect themselves if the short sellers are correct?
I'm curious how the person lending shares protects themselves from the downside if the short sellers are correct.
Are they actually loaning shares or is it like the banks, loaning out more money ...
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Going long vs short, mechanisms involved
I am having a bit of an issue with regards to understanding a shortening position.
If for instance a currency pair, such as the USDRUB which is trading around 70 RUB/USD right now, or 0.01428(=1/70) ...
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If a stock is sold but the purchase was canceled by the exchange, will it be considered a short-sale?
This question is asked as a follow-up to the question below;
How can this stock have an intra-day range of more than 90% on 24Aug2015?
BKCC had a 90% price fluctuation on 24Aug2015 and some buy ...
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Is it easier for brokers to find shares to short in premarket?
Recently I have had trouble finding the shares to short for positions I want to take at the start of open hours. Is it easier for a broker to find the shares in premarket when the stock is likely to ...
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How do we know the number of shorted shares of a stock?
I am reading this article which discusses Tesla's stock (TSLA). The article states:
27.5 million shares of Tesla are held short, or about 41 percent of the float.
How can the number of shorted ...
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What does the settlement date of short interest mean?
NASDAQ lists data like this for the short interest in Walmart:
Settlement Date Short Interest Avg Daily Share Volume Days To Cover
4/30/2013 27,988,175 7,442,123 ...
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If I have all this stock just sitting there, how can I lend it out to people for short selling?
Short sellers need to borrow stock in order to short sell. I understand they typically get this stock through a broker though some sort of arrangement where they pay interest.
I was wondering, how ...
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If I sell a stock that I don't have, am I required to buy it before a certain amount of time?
I'm just began playing in the stock market. I just executed a SELL, because I think the market is going down.
I don't actually have any of this stock. Apparently, it's quite common strategy. I would ...
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How come I can't sell short certain stocks? My broker says "no shares are available"
I've noticed that a many times while trying to sell short a stock I get this message. (I use Scottrade as my broker).
I think these stocks are being manipulated, for example, stocks like BSFT that ...
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Since many brokers disallow investors from shorting sub-$5 stocks, why don't all companies split their stock until it is sub-$5
Seems like a no-brainer? I guess if your security is not marginable, it can't be bought long on margin either, but I would also guess for most companies there are more margined shorts than margined ...
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