Questions tagged [stocks]
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I've been making a lot with options trading/pricing, but is it just luck? [closed]
So I've been trading for a while now, but after my internship, I learned about the different types of option pricing models like JumpDiffusion and CubicSpline. So I have begun trading both relative ...
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why is there no wash profit in taxes
Say someone lost like $100k from trading in 1 year. Now their investment is going up. Should they sell $3000 worth of stocks then buy it back immediately to take advantage of the $100k loss every ...
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Are stocks profitable for companies even in the long run
I'm trying to understand stocks. My current view is the following.
Assume I have a company and I need money to expand my business. Instead of taking a loan I give people the opportunity to buy a ...
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Within thirty days I buy 1 share of NVDA at 210 and sell for 215 the same day. What is my cost basis for that share?
I am trying to understand the implications of wash sale as it affects gains and repurchase at higher price.
I buy 1 share of NVDA at 200 and the sell at the same exact price.
Within thirty days I buy ...
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Long-term financial implications of selling stocks to get a higher house down payment
I have been searching for a house and am potentially going to make my first offer. I have cash on hand to make a 15% down payment on the place in question and enough money in stocks to comfortably get ...
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Fair value of common stock in stock options public company
I'm looking at $TOST 10k.
When I go to page 140 it says this for their stock options:
So you can see from the above image that they say their weighted average fair value of common stock was $17 at ...
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How do I report profits from selling stocks on 1040NR?
I sold stocks in 2021 and made a profit. However, my brokerage did not report this to IRS as my account is identified as nontaxable. Therefore they didn't withhold any tax and they did not issue any ...
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How to use short selling to safeguard or protect an investment?
I came across the following question:
Kumar has 100 shares of ABC Co. which he bought at $ 50. The current market price is
$ 140. Illustrate how Kumar using short selling can safeguard or protect his ...
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Does balance sheet common stock outstanding include RSU's and other restricted shares?
For example I am looking at the stock ticker $USER.
I know that it does not include employee options (I think) but does it include other dilutive shares or not?
Usually companies have 2 parts for this,...
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At the time when market opens what is the best way to know if market will go up or it will go down [closed]
I know markets are driven by multiple factors and any news, any time can cause market to go up and down. Assuming there is no major event/news during the day, at the time when market opens, what is ...
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Is a significant amount of directly registered shares new or in any way noteworthy?
I have found this Reddit post, which states that about 25% of Gamestops Free Float (yeah this again) has been directly registered by retail share holders.
The post (and the community as a whole) make ...
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Why do stocks sometimes have these massive peaks and sudden drops after hours?
Why do we sometimes see these massive spikes after hours in certain stocks? They rise very quickly and fall just as fast.
Is it a block trade?
If so, why did the price rise in the first place?
I am ...
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Combining DCF and P/B
If you have two companies with the same value according to DCF, but they differ in their equity. Let's assume company A has 1M USD in equity while company B has 0M USD equity. This means that company ...
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Meaning of ticker symbol suffixes for Toronto Stock Exchange listings
When looking at the ticker symbols of stocks listed on the Toronto Stock Exchange (TSX and TSXV), I noticed that there are many kinds of suffixes. For example, ".A", ".DB", "....
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Is there a way to sell a stock and as soon as possible buy another stock without paying a capital gains tax? Even if there was would it be outlawed?
Something similar to cryptocurrency trading where you can sell and buy for small fee via stablecoins.
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Is this the result of Sell Market?
I saw a deep red line this morning. That means there is a lower than usual transaction. What happened there? Does it indicate someone "Sell Market" and somebody else is waiting at the much ...
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Which stock is better to sell in a falling market? The first bought or the most expensive one?
The stock market in the US has been falling with consecutive losses. What is the best stock to sell:
when everything was bought 9 months, less than a year ago?
when everything was bought more than a ...
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Term for the largest shareholder of a public stock
In Turkish stock market there is a specific term for the largest owner of a publicly traded stock, "tahtaci", which is someone or some corporation who can control the price of the shares by ...
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shorting stock when you have no cash left in brockerage
Is there any difference when shorting stock under the following 2 brokerage accounts?
$0 cash $50k in stocks
$50k cash $0 in stocks
Would you have to pay margin like longing a stock in scenario 1 ...
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How can a company's equity go up when it doesn't generate a profit
There's a pattern I often see on companies balance sheets that I don't understand. The company will fail to generate a profit for the year, however their equity (assets - liabilities) increases.
I'll ...
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Does Wash Sale Rule Apply If Gain?
Recent market volatility had me trying to explain wash sales to someone and I realized I wasn't completely sure about the following:
Day 1) Sell a stock position at a loss
Day 2) Stock price ...
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Are there really stocks that actually give you money regularly without selling them?
The way I thought stocks worked was like this:
You buy them.
You wait for years or decades.
At some point, you sell them and then they may be worth a lot more, so you gain money.
Thus, they are ...
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Level 2 question: orders filled at best offer price not moving the the size of best offer
Suppose I have a best offer on Level 2: 200 shares at $2. If I place a bid for 100 shares at $2, I would expect level 2 to show the best offer to be 100 shares at $2 after my order is filled. But I ...
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Are these proxy vote questions pointless?
On many proxy vote forms, as a shareholder, you can vote "for" or "withhold" on some board of director members and appointment of an auditor. You can vote "for" or "...
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Do all limit-on-close (LOC) and market-on-close (MOC) orders get sent to the stock exchange?
In the US stock market, when I place a limit-on-close (LOC) order or a market-on-close (MOC) order, is the order guaranteed to be executed on the stock exchange? Or are stock brokerage firms allowed ...
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How do I Adjust for stock splits in Yahoo Stock Portfolio?
I have adjusted for stock splits before in my Yahoo Stock Portfolio and have printed out the steps but can't get it done now. Step 2 says after you have loaded the portfolio, scroll over the Modify ...
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What sequence are stock units held by us sold in?
This is specific to Indian Stock Market but I'd like to know about other markets as well if it works differently there.
Here's the scenario:-
I bought 10 units for INR 10 each.
The stock went up by 10,...
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How do I determine the cost basis on old stock?
We've had some stock in one company since the early 1990s. We had the dividends reinvested in the stock each time they were paid, so the records show we bought fractional shares from time to time over ...
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Fill or Kill (FOK) order type handling in the order book
I am looking to implement FOK order handling in the order book. I know that FOK orders should be completely filled or canceled. I have two questions:
If we have following state of the order book ...
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Can a company legally hold back on a buyback until after providing a poor earnings report?
Related and sort of a follow-up to Can a company legally depress their stock price in order to supercharge their buyback program?
Let's say a company has a share buyback plan in progress. They know ...
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General formula to understand standard deviation of a stock price over a time horizon?
A book that I'm reading (Paul Wilmott, Derivatives) states the following:
The standard deviation of the stock price over this time horizon is
$$ \sigma S = \sqrt(1/52) $$
where, the time horizon is ...
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Taxes on "Joint Tenants with Rights of Survivorship" stock brokerage account upon death of non-resident alien
Suppose two US non-resident aliens (parent and grown child) open a "Joint Tenants with Rights of Survivorship" stock brokerage account. When one of the account owners dies, does the other ...
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How to find the stock that I just inherited
My friend passed away Jan 15, 2022. I was notified this week by the custodian of the will, that I am named in the will as beneficiary of all my friend's General Electric Stock.
I was told that ...
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What are the tax consequences of loaning securities to one's broker aside from the dividends being paid as payment-in-lieu taxed as income?
I'm trying to understand the tax consequences of loaning securities to one's broker in the United States:
The dividends of the loaned security are being paid as payment-in-lieu, which is taxed as ...
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Why did Prosus NV's PE ratio fall so sharply?
Consider the historical P/E ratio of Prosus N.V. ADR (OTC markets: PROSY):
(source: https://ycharts.com/companies/PROSY/pe_ratio)
(source: https://www.gurufocus.com/stock/PROSY/data/pe-ratio)
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How can company show a profit before income tax, but then lose money after income tax?
I am looking at a recent earnings release from Apache Oil. The symbol for Apache Oil is APA. Here is a link to the earnings release: Earnings Release
The release (on page 6) shows that the company had ...
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What happens to stock warrants on acquisition?
I am invested heavily in warrants within a mid-cap biotech company. Due to the cash position of many large-cap biotechs like Moderna and Pfizer, I am assuming they will start to make some acquisitions ...
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Stock Splits -- What are surplus and capital accounts?
I just read this in The Intelligent Investor, by Benjamin Graham:
A stock split may be carried out by what technically may be called a stock dividend, which involves a transfer of sums from earned ...
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Stock re-balancing in equal weighted portfolio
I currently have 20 stocks* in my portfolio (market value $300,000) which are equal weighted (5%). I am a long term investor and retired. *As part of the stock portfolio, I actually have 19 stocks and ...
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Making a long put into a long put spread
Let's say I have a long put and it's Friday. I still think it has good potential to move down but I just want to be protected over the weekend in case the trade goes against me drastically because of ...
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How Do I Trade With Margin On E*Trade?
I'm new to Margin altogether and need some help. Here are my numbers:
Total Margin Requirements $0.00
Total Margin Equity $190.68
Adjusted SMA $205.34
Maintenance Excess ...
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Delta hedging of stock portfolio using options
In the aforesaid delta hedging of stock position, how was the delta of long stock computed by author ?
In my opinion, total long position of 500 shares divided by the market lot of one put option ...
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How did Google's Stock Split affect market capitalization?
So Google split its stock in 2014 2 for 1. Everyone with a Class A share got a Class C share.
Supposedly this meant that the price of each share was halved so that it would be easier for new investors ...
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Charles Schwab shows Ebay's PE as 21. Is that a mistake or a different way of calculating?
Using Charles Schwab data the TTM earnings for Ebay is 2.5B + 2.668B + 2.368B + 2.868B = 10.404B
Shares outstanding is 626M
So 10.404 B / 626 M = 15.9 EPS.
So PE is 58 / 15 = 3.86. How is Charles ...
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What is "net assets for common stock"?
I've looked online and could only find this definition:
Net Assets for Common Stock Holders = All Assets Less All Liabilities Less Apportioned Value for Preferred and Minority Shareholders.
So it ...
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What is the relationship between the market cap, share price, and cash in the market?
Let's say that a company entered a stock market selling 1000 shares $1K each in total $1M.
What would need to happen in order to double the price of a share? Are both scenarios valid?
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Additional $...
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Will this trade trigger the wash sale rule?
i have an example
Step 1: bought 1000 shares at 2$
Step 2: Share price dropped to 1$ the same day and added another
1000 same day(averaging down)
Step 3: Next day stock increased to 1.5$ i sold 1000 ...
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What does "GILEAD SCIENCES INC REV NRA W/H ,03/30" mean?
What does the GILEAD SCIENCES INC REV NRA W/H ,03/30 mean in my broker's statement?
I mean, the INC REV NRA W/H ,03/30 part.
Is that a dividend?
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Is there a future tax benefit to selling RSUs in order to exercise-and-hold the stock options?
I have RSUs and in-the-money stock options granted by my company, both vested. I've held the RSUs for over a year, so I understand that when selling, I would pay long-term capital gains tax on the ...
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When is cash available to be withdrawn from Fidelity after selling stocks?
When is cash available to be withdrawn from Fidelity after selling ETFs and stocks?
