I want to fine out how my indiviual stock is doing, how do I go online and see?
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Do you have someone like Schwab or Merril Lynch managing your account? Is this a 401k? You can get your account activity online through whomever is brokering your account. If it's through your work, go to the personnel office and ask for the information booklet on how to access your account information. If you just want to know how your stock is doing, click stocks on your Yahoo! home page and enter the symbol SHLD. (Kmart owned by Sears holding Co.) That will tell you the value.
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THrough Yahoo Finance you open the page of the particular stock and click the historical prices tab on the left side of the screen. All you need is the date and it will give you the high, low, closing, etc.
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go to yahoo finance.  If you know the symbol for the company key it into the space where it says "get quotes".  If you do not know the symbol, click on the words "symbol lookup". Unfortunately, you have to know how to spell the name of the company.  After you find the symbol, key it in and there will be displayed the price of one share of stock.  For example, Microsoft, MSFT, last trade $21.92;  Bank America, BAC, $48.79
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Go to Yahoo Finance.  Lookup the stock.  On the left column there will be a link under Ownership titled Major Holders.  At the bottom of that page is a link to "View Transactions for Insiders & Institutional Holders.\n\nThere you go.
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good luck, at least you are willing to pay!\n\nI will watch to see if you get any definitive answers!\n\nDid you check with your normal stock broker program to see if they provide a service?\n\nupdate:\ninterestingly google shows stock quotes\nhttp://www.google.com/search?q=stock+quote+aapl\n\nit's a 15 minute delay, but they also have the links to the big boys!
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I would suggest practicing your investing skills at http://www.top10traders.com  This is a totally FREE site. You can create your own portfolio of stocks with $100,000 in 'play' money, and then watch how your stocks compare against other traders. \n\n The site lists out which investors are doing the best and what stocks they have bought. Just click on the portfolio of the best investors and you can see the stocks they like.  \n\nGood luck !
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There's a latest review on this site\n\nhttp://explodingstocks.com/blog/?p=19
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Buy a one month subscription to stockcharts.com for twenty bucks.  Use their advanced scan engine to search for stocks with a large average true range (ATR).\n\nThe list will change over time as trading activity changes.
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I think you should look at what the best traders are buying and selling.  The stocks that they are selling short (long=false) would be what I consider "bad" stocks.  You can find this info at http://www.top10traders.com - this is a free site that lets you create a portfolio of stocks with $100,000 in "play" money.  Each day the site ranks the best performing portfolios, so you can see how your picks perform compared to other investors.  You can also read posts on investing from the best traders, as well as share your own investing ideas.\n\nHere are this month's best traders:\n\nhttp://www.top10traders.com/Top10Standings.aspx \n\nGood luck!
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Go to a company's website and look for their financial statement.  All companies have a link to their financials for their investors.
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yahoo did away with portfolio tracking several months ago. Try marketwatch.com or even better morningstar.com
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As a business librarian, I suggest these three, quick, easy ways to get accurate answers to all the information you asked for:\n\n(1) Visit the company's Web site and look for "Investor Relations" or "Financials." They should have SEC filings, such as a 10-K, which will give you current information released by the company to its shareholders.\n\n(2) Visit http://www.hoovers.com/free/ and search this business database for more accurate business information.\n\n(3) Visit http://www.marketwatch.com/news/default.asp?siteid=mktw to get up-to-the-minute stock information.
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There's a latest review on this site at the site below\n\nhttp://explodingstocks.com/blog/?p=7
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What you need is stock charts plotted by percentage returns (inculding dividends) as you will see at www.fasttrack.net
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http://www.otcbb.com/ is the site form information on live otc trades, biggest gainers, etc.\n\nIf you are looking for investment ideas, there are a number of traders at http://www.top10traders.com that have created portfolios based on otc stocks.  This is a free site that lets you create a portfolio of stocks with $100,000 in "play" money.  Each day the site ranks the best performing portfolios, so you can see how your picks perform compared to other investors.  You can also read posts on investing from the best traders, as well as share your own investing ideas.\n\nHere are this month's best traders:\n\nhttp://www.top10traders.com/Top10Standings.aspx
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Your best bet is to buy S&P DEP RECEIPTS (Symbol SPY).  they give you the diversity of the S&P 500 index.
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Check out Investopedia.com. They have a lot of good investing tools & an investing simulator where you can invest $1oo,ooo in virtual money. You can buy stocks at their present value & your "portfolio" is updated every 20 minutes i believe.