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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 to sell a stock in a crashing market?

Your question contains a faulty assumption: During crashes and corrections the amount of sellers is of course higher than the amount of buyers, making it difficult to sell stocks. …
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Does the increasing popularity of index fund investing mean that it will become unprofitable...

Index funds aren't trying to outperform the market; thus they have no edge to lose. I believe the source of your confusion is that you are confusing the excess returns that active trading strategies s …
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Why are big companies like Apple or Google not included in the Dow Jones Industrial Average ...

That means that the index is calculated by adding up the prices of the constituent stocks and dividing by a constant, the "Dow divisor". … (Keep this in mind the next time someone offers you a bar bet on how many stocks are in the S&P 500. The answer is (currently) 505!) …
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Do stock splits make one's shares double in voting power?

Ordinarily a stock split increases all shareholders' share counts, so that there is no change in anybody's voting power. For example, if you owned 1% of the company before the split, after the split …
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