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The stock market is the community of individuals and corporations engaged in the buying and selling of shares of companies, called stocks, on the open market. Shares of stock are traded on a stock exchange and are tracked on indices such as the New York Stock Exchange and the Nasdaq.

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Market Line of Credit vs Debt - where to prioritize?

Scenario I have an etrade Line Of Credit that is leveraged against a brokerage account with rather aggressive nyse etfs (heavy in nasdaq). Brokerage acct total 330k LOC total 150k Rather than pay ...
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How is the yield of this particular bond calculated?

I am looking at this particular bond of coinbase company via Interactive Brokers website. Coinbase Bond ISIN : USU19328AA89 The rate of the bond is 3.4 so at the ask price of the bond at 62 the yield ...
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Is the greater fool theory stronger in today's stock market than ever before? [duplicate]

I understand how owning public shares is technically owning a piece of the company's assets, and if liquidated, the proceeds would be distributed amongst the shareholders. But I think the relation to ...
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How does the stock market graph updates?

Context: I am not an economist. I am a programmer. Currently, I am developing a program to simulate the stock market by creating an analogous stock market for a group of people. One of the main ...
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Does a limit buy marker order ABOVE a price threshold exist?

Contrary to a classic limit buy order, I would like to trigger a market buy order only once the price exceeds a certain threshold. Does such an order type exist? (From what I understood, if I send a ...
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How to find out whether a dissolved company has been traded in stock markets?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ameriquest_Mortgage I see the above company dissolved some years ago. I don't know whether its stock was traded in the stock market or not. How can I find this ...
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How market orders are filled?

When we look at the stock price S of a stock, then if I am correct S is equal to the average between the highest bid and the lowest ask for this stock. Hence since the highest bid is lower than the ...
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Stock market graph question

This is from the technical analysis book I am reading, please help understanding this chart. I cant get how they created this chart and cant understand it. Quote from the book for the chart Figure ...
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Why are the patterns of fluctuation for the Dow Jones, S&P500, and Nasdaq on a typical trading day so similar?

I've noticed that on a given trading day, the patterns for fluctuation for the three indexes are very similar, yet the differences are the magnitude of the fluctuations. See: What could account for ...
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Can chinese investor buy stocks in indian stock market?

I have seen some material on the web such as "New Foreign Investment Restrictions Imposed by India",New Foreign Investment Restrictions Imposed by India. In the article:Historically, ...
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(DCF) Why do you add up ALL the future cashflows (discounted back) shouldn’t it just be The last years cashflow?

If every year company XYZ retains (most) of its earnings, reinvesting it. So in the last year(of your projection) Company XYZ only has its current cashflows! (as it reinvested it). Similarly, if ...
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Why is EPS looked at much more than FCF/S (Free Cash Flow Per Share)

I understand that eps is an important metric to look at when analyzing a company. (And I wont go into all the details of eps) But at the end of the day, the amount "you" have in "your&...
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Why has IBM been trading at a fixed price of $118.95 in London for the last few years?

As far as I understand, IBM stocks are trading in New York at $141.83 currently, with 1.84m of shares traded daily(?) and some +7% change of price in the recent year: https://markets.ft.com/data/...
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Calculating stock prices falls and rises

Let's say I close my investment of $25 in a stock which is currently down from 313 to 123, I calculate my loss with this equation: ( ( Close - Open ) / Open ) * 100 = %change Which would leave me with ...
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How do you analyse components of Index option to help you get more accuracy while trading options?

Suppose, you trade in options, Option index comprises of Many stocks, so how do you analyse those stocks in order to determine the movement of price in options while doing intraday trading?
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Once my stock starts selling, am I the only one to sell at that price or higher until my order is filled?

Today I had an order where I sold 4150 shares. It took about 2 minutes to sell all the shares. I could see the stock at my price limit and down 1 or 2 cents and back... it went up and down that way a ...
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Why Stock dividend yield (TTM) is different from Yield (FWD)

Here is what confuses me.Example: CTRA stock (Coterra Energy Inc.) I read about it in Seeking Alpha and checking "Dividend Yield" chart I see this: While at the "Summary" page I ...
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Why offer at a lower interest rate on a loan then the expected ROI of investing in the stock market?

A quick google search told me that the expected ROI of investing in the stock market is roughly just under 10% That's admittedly a bit higher then I had anticipated, but quick scanning of their ...
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How options affect the index?

I am not able to get technical/logical reason behind following scenario. Can you please help me to explain the reason behind it? Context: Group of stocks makes the index. It means Index is dependent ...
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What does it mean to commence Chapter 11 to complete marketing and sales process? [duplicate]

I hold some stock in this company that just filed for chapter 11: https://3dprint.com/295633/chapter-11-bankruptcy-who-will-buy-fast-radius/ What will happen to my shares?
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Stock money origin and existence

If a company has in total 20 shares, selling at the original price with $100 each. A user (A) buys 10 shares and a user (B) buys 10 shares (which makes half). Then each individual pays with real life ...
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How much time should I spend while researching stock? [closed]

Is it true that it will take 2 to 4 hrs for researching stock
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How does the market correct the price of government bonds ETF's? Does it?

A year ago I started to put some of my savings in investments, and to start safely, I bought eurozone government bonds ETF's. One year later, these are down 17%. At first I was astonished how that ...
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When Twitter gets sold, do pre-purchase shareholders need to do anything?

Twitter is currently publicly traded, but once Elon Musk buys it, it'll go private. Do current Twitter shareholders need to place sell orders so Musk can buy their shares?
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Capital market expectations

I have a relative simple question. Are capital market expectations the same as capital market assumptions? I have found report of banks about capital market assumptions but none of CME. Is it same to ...
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Do investors prefer short term profit rather than long term profit?

While reading some news on the removal of many shows from HBOmax and layoffs the answer of why I came across the most is that the new CEO has to prove his worth by making as much profit right now (...
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Value a stock by Last fulfilled order or by closest ask/bid?

Im trying to dumb down stock pricing. Let’s say there is only ONE stock on only ONE exchange. You can see ask and bid list and also finalized trade list. Now, if you would show the current price or ...
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Why does NASDAQ consider the Steel/Iron Ore industry part of the industrials sector and not the materials sector?

From my understanding, the materials stock market sector consists of companies providing raw materials to other companies, such as oil, lumber, metals, etc. and the industrials stock market sector ...
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How much money does it take to pump a stock/crypto currency?

Like for example, if a stock is worth $0.10, how much would it take to actually have an effect on the price, even if it only goes up $0.01 cent, how much would it take to change the price? Same for a ...
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What was the true stock price of TOPS ships back in the day?

Taking into account reverse splits, it couldn't have been the $173,000,000 a share. Aren't past prices adjusted as the different X's (example 20x) what it "actually was"? Youd have to ...
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Following the big guys in real time

In the book Rule #1 by Phil Town, he explains that in general a large investor can take between 3 and 6 weeks to buy or sell a complete position. For example, Warren Buffett took several months (...
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Why do VUSA and S&P 500 have different trend? [duplicate]

I am checking S&P 500 and VUSA to start investing in the stock market. However I've seen that VUSA is not showing the same trend as the S&P 500. I understand that VUSA is in GBP, which implies ...
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How can option seller lose unlimited money?

I hear that option seller can lose unlimited money, but how can option seller lose more than he deposited as margin? Does he only lose the margin he deposited to sell option or unlimited? Please ...
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Importance of a number of hedge funds holders during stock analysis

I am new to stock market investments and reading this review of the top semiconductor stocks I wonder about the line under each stock's header that says: Number of Hedge Fund Holders: 55 (or a ...
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A change in trend towards end 2022? Don't invest money in the stock market anymore, but leave it in a savings account? [closed]

Many in this community and other forums recommend S&P500 and some other index funds. After the index fund fell sharply, I also thought now is the opportunity to enter. But now I read in the news ...
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What is a 5 handle when talking about increases/decreases in price?

I keep hearing people say "its a 5 handle" or 3 handle, various numbers like that. I'm not sure if this is related to the cup with handle pattern or something else. And if it is related to ...
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Why does the price of a stock really drop on ex-dividend date? [duplicate]

I know that the price of a stock on the ex dividend is supposed to drop by the amount of the dividend. What i don't understand fully is why it happens. I have seen many answers/articles/books etc that ...
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what is rule for 40 year retirement?

For 30 year retirement 4% rule is suggested to be followed. Suppose a prospective retiree wants to plan for 40years, what should be max withdrawal rate
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why 4% rule in retirement if S&P return is about 7%

Lots of planners and web sites suggest rule of 4% for 30 year retirement. Also per many sites US average return in stock market is about 6.5 to 7 %. So is the 6.5-4 = 2.5% is safety margin ? Any ...
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Dealers in OTCs (over-the-counter)

"However dealers (of the OTCs) resist the participation of non-dealers and accuse non-dealers of taking liquidity without exposing themselves to the risks of providing liquidity." The above ...
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What effects does a change in IV on the call side have on the put side?

In a European type options market, consider this scenario, where someone starts to buy call options very aggressively which increases call IV rapidly. At the same time, the underlying price remains ...
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Where can I find Industry Standard Stock Prices? [closed]

I'm taking up Business Finance and part of my research project is to compare my assigned company's yearly stock prices to the industry standard. However, I do not know where to find this nor am I ...
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Calculate stop loss

---- Preface ---- I am not sure if this is the correct place to post this kind of question. If not, please let me know, and I will remove it. If you need any clarifications or require more ...
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WEG S.A. - from where I can buy the stocks ( BVMF: WEGE3 )

I am located in Europe (Bulgaria) and the only languages which I can use are Bulgarian and English. For years I am unsuccessfully trying to buy this stock of www.weg.net , but it seems not possible. ...
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Can someone explain this discrepancy in Air France stock price vs. Air France ADR price?

So recently Air France decided to issue lots of new shares, to raise money, making its stock price plummet on the Paris exchange by more than 60%: https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/AF.PA?p=AF.PA&....
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The listing price of a stock

I was creating python model of hypothetical stock with market cap MC having S outstanding shares whose current price is CP. the intention was to create a chart for technical analysis and understand ...
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When a company sells a subsidiary or some of its assets, does the market reacts negatively? [closed]

When a company sells a subsidiary or some of its assets to pay off debts or refinance, does the market reacts negatively? I assume it is always negative as it reduces the company size and indicates ...
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Market sell order executed at a higher price than existing limit order in a very illiquid market for an illiquid stock

First off, please bear in mind that this is a very rare scenario for a very illiquid stock in an illiquid market. Let's say the lowest ask price for the stock is 10.00 atm and there's no bid order ...
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How is the actual stock transaction price determined? [duplicate]

Let's say that for some stock, the current highest bid price is $5.01 and the current lowest ask price is $5.05. Or in more detail, the following orders are queued (for simplicity, only one share per ...
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In technical analysis why higher volumes are considered better for a price action [closed]

I have read everywhere that, if a chart pattern gets broken by a higher volume of trades then its considered better than the same pattern broken with lower number of trades. But I have never seen a ...
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