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This tag is to be used for any questions related to Stocks. Ideally they should be accompanied by a country tag if relevant. It is discouraged to ask question about a specific stock. However an example can be used to illustrate a point.
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Getting started in stock with one special field of activity
You are always best off investing in things you understand. If you have a deep understanding of the aeronautical industry, say, you are a Vice President at Boeing and have been working at Boeing for 4 …
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What kind of execution can I expect for a typical NYSE stock trade by a broker?
If I call my broker to sell a stock at say 10am in the morning and assuming that he does whatever he has to do to sell it immediately, can I assume that it will be sold more or less immediately (withi …
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Question about order
This depends on the exchange in question, obviously. However, normally a market order is filled as buyers/sellers are available, not all at once. So, in your example, 0.1 bitcoins could be sold for 36 …
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Is there a reliable way to find, if a stock or company is heading bankruptcy?
You can avoid companies that might go bankrupt by not buying the stock of companies with debt.
Every quarter, a public company must file financials with the EDGAR system called a 10-Q. This filing in …
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Is a stock considered a "liquid asset"?
Is stock on the NYSE or NASDAQ normally considered a "liquid asset" on a balance sheet?
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Can Stock Brokers trade against you when they are holding two orders on opposite sides of th...
Yes, that's called being a dealer. That is how they make money.
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Valuing a company and comparing to share price
There are books on the subject of valuing stocks.
P/E ratio has nothing directly to do with the value of a company. … People are buying the stocks just as a way to store money, not necessarily make a profit. It's kind of like buying land. …
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Do stocks that are highly rated by analysts tend to outperform index funds historically?
Sorry I don't have citations, but I worked for Fidelity for many years and I can assure you that the average fund at Fidelity underperformed the market. Only the superstar funds tended to outperform t …
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What stops management from just "compensating" themselves by taking all the stock in a company?
One of the odd things about a lot of modern companies is that the management, meaning the senior officers (CEO, CFO, CTO, etc) can pay themselves in stock.
For example, Square's Jack Dorsey pays hims …
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How do the different branches of the NYSE interrelate?
Are they just four different collections of stocks that are all traded by the same people, or are there actually four completely separate exchanges in different rooms with different people and different …
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Closing stock position on Dec 30
I fundamentally agree with TomTom on this one. From a legal point of view, the settlement date is irrelevant. What is important is when you take decisive action.
In the long run, however, the IRS does …
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Why do stocks go up? Is it due to companies performing well, or what else?
Prices can go up or down for a variety of reasons. If interest rates decline typically every stock goes up, and vice versa.
Ultimately, there are two main value-related factors to a price of a stock: …
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How do hidden orders affect bid/ask price?
If you make a bid lower than any of the existing sell orders, then the bid will just sit there until someone acts on it and sells to you at that price, which could be 1 second from now or forever.
Hi …
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Are marijuana based investments promising, or just another scam?
Any advertisement for a "business opportunity" is nearly always a scam of some kind. In such deals, the seller is the one making the money. They rely on the fantasy of the average person who imagines …
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How are shares of private corporations valued for the purpose of income tax?
I know that all stocks have a "par value" but usually for a private corporation that par value is nominal. …
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