Questions tagged [stock-exchanges]
for questions that relate to stock exchanges. A stock exchange is a physical entity that provides services for stock brokers and traders to buy and sell securities.
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What is the difference between payment for order flow and ECN rebates?
In both payment for order flow and ECN rebates, one gets paid for providing liquidity. What is the difference between payment for order flow and ECN rebates? Are ECN rebates a type of payment for ...
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How common stock equity related to number of share outstanding?
Recently, I check Facebook information about shares as below:
Facebook balance sheet
According to the definition, the common stock equation is represented as :
Number of Outstanding Shares = Number of ...
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Why would I participate in a stock exchange's opening and closing auctions?
During the trading day, stock exchanges function as continuous trading markets. The exceptions are the opening and closing auctions. Opening and closing auctions are call markets.
As a small retail ...
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Who actually "does" the options, and are there others?
Here's the popular AAPL stock:
https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/AAPL
What "is" "Apple stock" ? Well, it is a legal instrument created by Nasdaq. Apple "trades on" Nasdaq, ...
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Can I raise money in an IPO of my house?
I am thinking of getting some cash by selling shares of my house. Can I sell shares of my house in an IPO to raise some cash for myself? It would be super cool to ring the opening bell during the IPO ...
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Can the stock exchange expropriate my shares?
I paid the stock exchange $1200 for 10 shares of Apple. Do I get to keep these shares forever? Is there any chance that the stock exchange could use some powers of eminent domain to take away my ...
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Why does IB show Equinor ASA under STL@OSE if the OSE symbol is EQNR?
Equinor ASA says it's listed on NYSE as an ADR under the symbol EQNR and on the Oslo Stock Exchange with the symbol EQNR. However, when I try and search for "EQNR" on the Interactive Brokers'...
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How do you take profit from stock trading while keeping capital invested?
Suppose you buy stocks from company FOOBAR at price X. After a while, the price is Y = X * 1.25, so you decide you want to collect that 25% profit. You sell the stocks, cashing out your original X ...
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T, T+1, T+2 trading modes
Why are there different settlements modes T, T+1, T+2? why can't everything be settlement "today" T0? I understand what the difference is, but I don't understand why people did this and in ...
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How do locked markets get resolved in a low-volume market?
Consider a low-volume exchange-traded security that sometimes sees no trading volume for days on end. Examples of such securities are some bonds, preferred shares, SPACs, and ETFs listed on the NYSE ...
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Can I trade in off-hours and if not what does the graph shows in that case?
I new to trading and I would like to know why the graph of the stock after closing still follows a path up and down and why it is not a straight line.
Can I trade using on the weekend using the gray ...
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How does stock exchange affect the company? [duplicate]
People invest in the company initially using an IPO.
Now I don't understand how trading the stocks with others (who didn't participate in the IPO) would benefit the company.
Also, why do the people ...
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PNK exchange - What are the differences between these Schneider Electric stock symbols?
Can someone help me understand the differences between all the stock symbols I found for Schneider Electric?
I found three:
Schneider Electric S.E. (SU.PA) PAR
Schneider Electric S.E. (SBGSF) PNK
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Why would retail investors want to route their orders to specific stock exchanges?
I am a small retail investor, and I have an account at a zero-commission stock broker. The stock brokerage firm offers "direct routing", where I can choose to send my order to a specific ...
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Lot size for NASDAQ Equity options
I'm going to trade in NASDAQ equity options, please share link where I can find lot size of each equity option contract?
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Companies that list on an additional Stock Exchange
I am not sure if this question has been asked before. I have just started purchasing stock and have the following question:
I have interest in purchasing shares of a company that has been doing very ...
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Given one ISIN, how can I get the list of all the stock exchanges on which it is traded, along with its ticker symbols if any?
Given one International Securities Identification Number (ISIN), how can I get the list of all the stock exchanges on which it is traded, along with its ticker symbols if any?
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Is there any stock exchange that doesn't use ticker symbols (a.k.a. stock symbols)?
I read on this answer by kurtosis:
Stock tickers exist on most stock exchanges and are unique to an exchange or country.
Is there any stock exchange that doesn't use ticker symbols (a.k.a. stock ...
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Is stock exchange order book data useful for retail investors?
I am a small retail investor, and I have a stock brokerage account. The stock brokerage firm is offering free real-time order book data for NASDAQ and BATS. I noticed that, as a standalone product ...
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When sending orders to exchanges, is there any sort of personal identifier that is associated with the order?
If I place an order to buy or sell a stock or futures contract through a regular retail brokerage, is there any sort of personal identifier that goes to the exchange along with my order? I don't ...
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Can off-exchange trades take place at prices outside the bid-ask spread?
Suppose the national best bid for an illiquid stock is $10, and the national best ask is $12. Alice wants to buy 1,000,000 shares, but the daily volume of the stock is lower than the amount she wants ...
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Can US stocks list on one stock exchange but trade on other US stock exchanges?
I am trying to understand how the US stock market works. From my understanding, there is one stock exchange where a company is "listed". This stock exchange listing requires the company to ...
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How does a stock trade at an exchange that isn’t where it is listed? [duplicate]
For example, AAPL is listed on NASDAQ but I see that NYSE has some trading volume for that symbol. Does NYSE just act as the matching engine, fill the orders, and then report the trades to the listing ...
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Is this how stock trading works? [closed]
This is a very basic question about the Stock Exchange, and I was looking for some concrete answers with a general understanding of how it works.
When a Stock Exchange is open for business in a ...
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Why do stock exchanges have minimum share price requirements?
Most stock exchanges have rules about minimum share prices, below which a stock may be suspended or delisted from the exchange after a grace period. For example, the New York Stock Exchange requires a ...
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Does an IPO mean a company is going public or is already public?
I know that an IPO means that a particular company, regardless of the country, is offering some quantity of their stocks to the public via the stock exchange.
I also assume (but not sure) that if they ...
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Are publicly available bid, ask, and last prices reliable when many trades take place outside stock exchanges?
From my understanding, zero-commission trades are possible because stock brokers place orders for stocks on third-party platforms instead of placing orders on stock exchanges. The third-party ...
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Why are computers allowed to make trades in a stock market regime that's regulated to be operated by humans?
This is my first question and I'm very unexperienced in the field of stock trading so please be gentle.
Looking at a stock price chart (TSLA) I can see there is a so called "after market" in ...
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How do market makers avoid losses in their stock inventory?
The Designated Market Makers (DMMs) on NYSE and the Market Makers on NASDAQ hold shares in their inventory in order to facilitate liquidity. Given that stock prices change throughout the day, how do ...
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What do we infer from the shares bid - position in market?
I am trying to understand what can I conclude or infer from my position in the market when I have applied for the bid. In terms of number of buyers and the volume. Next in terms of number of sellers ...
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Book Value vs Current Market Value
Thanks for looking into my post.
I am new to the stock investment.
According to Benjamin Graham, He suggested investors to purchase a stock 1.5 times the current book value.
Current Microsoft book ...
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Quality of price when trading less than 100 shares
I am thinking about diversifying my portfolio by adding 10 new positions. Due to limited funds, I am planning on buying less than 100 shares each time. It is my understanding that since I am buying ...
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Why are stock prices so volatile outside trading hours (after hours or pre-market)?
I understand that companies release earnings once a quarter, and when they do, their stock price fluctuates wildly outside of trading hours based on their results. And there are external factors such ...
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How to estimate the total worth of a company?
As of 2020/6/10, if you look at the Microsoft stock (link below), you will see that the company has a Mkt cap of $1.49T. For some time now I had been under the impression that this figure indicated ...
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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 convention for tickers on the Singapore Exchange?
On the Singapore Exchange (SGX), I observed that 3 letter tickers are for ordinary equities, whereas 4 letter tickers depends on the last letter. From my observations, these are the meanings of the ...
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Can you purchase ADRs then sell it to the share issuing country?
If I purchase ADRs (OTC or not), will I be able to sell it to the country where the shares are issued?
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US companies' shares traded on London Stock Exchange
I noticed that there are a number of US companies whose shares are traded on London Stock Exchange. Let's take Netflix as an example. In the US, it is traded as NASDAQ:NFLX but in the UK it has ...
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Does HSBC publish a balance sheet for each of its branch in US, UK and HK?
So HSBC is listed on the New York Stock Exchange, London Stock Exchange and the Stock Exchange of Hong Kong Limited.
I can only find one report/balance sheet for every fiscal period (quarterly and ...
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What is period end basic number of $0.50 ordinary shares outstanding?
I was checking HSBC 2020 Q1 earnings release's balance sheet, and under share count, the first line says "period end basic number of $0.50 ordinary shares outstanding." I believe that the first line ...
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When we invest in stocks, what stock price would we get if the buy limit order is higher than the ask?
If the stock market is changing so fast, and by the time your buy limit order of $132.60 arrived at the brokerage, the stock is at:
bid: 132.40
ask: 132.50
Then what price would you get? The system ...
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How to look for evidence of a stock that got suddenly halted during regular trading hour in the NASDAQ exchange?
Yesterday (May 14th, 2020) I was trading CFD on Co-Diagnostics (CODX). Then at 13:25 EDT the stock halted in the NASDAQ exchange and it was until 13:58 EDT that the market resumed (subsequently my ...
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Why isn't my bankrupt stock trading at any price?
Yesterday, a company whose stock I own declared bankruptcy (dont worry I barely have anything in it.) I was curious to see what would happened to its stock price, but so far (2 hours 20 minutes after ...
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Can a market order be matched by another market order in stock trading?
I have found similar questions in this forum but those answers didn't specifically clear the fact.
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Why is the same stock almost twice it’s value on a different exchange?
I have noticed that the value of AstraZeneca stocks on the European Xetra exchange is almost twice the value of its New York Stock exchange?
How can this be?
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Is it possible to place a limit buy above the spread and vice versa?
Well, the title says it all.
Is it possible to place a limit buy (bid) order above the spread (best ask price) and vice versa (a limit sell (ask) order below the spread (best bid price))?
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Why the Ticker on InteractiveBrokers have totally different values that in Degiro?
I am trying to replicate my Degiro portfolio in InteractiveBrokers
Produkt Symbol/ISIN Ticker Symbol Exchange Symbol
ISHARES EUROPE IE00B1YZSC51 IMEU EAM
ISHR PAC XJPN A ...
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Who are the buyers and sellers that determine the bid and ask price?
It's commonly explained that the price of a stock is determined by supply and demand. You can see the bid price (highest price a buyer is willing to pay for the shares) and the ask price (lowest price ...
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Can stocks trade at negative prices?
I've looked everywhere, and everyone says that stocks can never sell below zero. I don't think that's true. For example, if a company is structured with unlimited liability, it should be possible for ...
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Want to buy an american stock (Tesla) but I'm in Germany, which exchange should I go through for the best tax treatment?
I am a resident of Germany. Should I buy stocks on the Nasdaq or the German electronic exchange Xetra from a tax point of view?
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