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This tag is to be used for questions about stocks. If possible, this tag should be accompanied by a relevant country or stock exchange tag. Questions about specific stocks are discouraged but an example can be used to illustrate a point. Stock is also known as common stock or common equity; do not use this tag for preferred stock.
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How can there be more people who buy stocks than people who sell stocks?
But how can that be if there must be someone buying all the stocks that are sold? Are the stocks sold back to the company?
The stock market is an auction. …
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2% gain-and-out trading plan on the stock market
I pick 10 good ones and 10 bad, but make 8% per year on average, on the total investment, on paper...
if the stocks lost 8% the following year I would be back to my original investment. …
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Long term investing
Besides the already mentioned excellent points about transaction fees and tax obligations, you're missing the whole point of long term investing: it ignores short term crises like Trump tariffs and th …
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If you buy shares in a company, and they go up a lot, is that only "theoretical" money, or "...
Only money is money. That sounds obvious, but must be stated to reinforce the seemingly obvious.
When you buy 20 shares of ACME at $5/share, you've exchanged $100 money for an asset which is those 20 …
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Help me understand how the stock price works
The stock market can best be thought of as a huge, multi-seller, multi-buyer, continuous auction.
That's why you see bid and ask prices: buyers are bidding certain prices, while sellers are asking cer …
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What percent in short term stock gain to match buy and hold
(This is really a comment, but an extended one which should help answer your question.)
Your question is a bit flawed, since the "buy and hold" investor person won't pay any tax since they haven't sol …
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Why do investors pay trillions for minority stakes in companies, when their only potential p...
I challenge your assertions that:
people buy stocks only for dividends, and
that it takes 50 years to get their investment back. … That it because:
a big portion of wealth growth (even when purchasing "dividend" stocks) is asset appreciation, and
you still own the actual asset (the shares of stock). …
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How do I sell or transfer forgotten about shares
Loblaws is a subsidiary of George Weston Ltd (hence the GWL).
You own 29.9 shares of Loblaws, which is currently CA$70.24/share, and 0.99 shares of George Weston Ltd US$80.10/share.
Added together, …
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Why didn't Blizzard's stock react to the bad HK press?
The real question is whether or not investors think that a specific kind of bad press will or will not cause a permanent reduction in sales.
If investors think this is a tempest in a teapot, and that …
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Index funds and finite supply of stock
The price of the item (in this case, the prices of the underlying stocks) rise until an equilibrium point is reached. …
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GBTC stock went way down but no signs of huge decrease?
There was a 91-1 stock split, meaning that you should have 91x as many shares as you did a few weeks ago.
http://markets.businessinsider.com/news/stocks/gbtc-bitcoin-investment-trust-stock-price-popping-after …
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How much money do you need to pump a stock?
Scammers rely on convincing suckers that low volume, and thus high volatility (typically penny) stocks will become Real Valuable Real Soon. …
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type of industry based on stock ticker symbol
No, in the US, at least, because ticker symbols are only based on the name of the company.
(Besides, big companies can be in multiple sectors; this was quite common in the "conglomeration craze" of th …
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What stops someone from inflating the price of a stock by engaging in bogus transactions?
Scammers do this all the time with penny stocks. It's market manipulation. …
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Why would any owner sell their company to Warren Buffett / Berkshire Hathaway?
Suppose that I'm either an owner or part owner (through shares) of Example Corporation.
why would any owner want to sell a profitable, well-run business that's likely to be around to give returns wel …
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