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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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Why do companies not buyback all their shares when they earn enough profit to do so?

Certainly companies do do share buy-backs as an alternative to issuing dividends. It is pretty standard. But what about buying back all the shares? Ignoring all sorts of company law and accounting is …
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Is it possible to develop an algorithm/computer program that could estimate the future stock...

The short answer is yes. But it won't make you rich. You would expect in a liquid market that profitable trading opportunities based on predictions of future prices would be eliminated by competitive …
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