I know little about stocks. Today I sold some stock my company gave me. I did it from the link to JP Morgan from my employer's website as soon as Stock Exchange opened today. Stock was at 25.87. My status showed pending for several hours. I checked it at end of day and it was finalized at price at close of day. I thought you sold stock quickly and for what it was at time of sale. Will someone explain? Thanks
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It might be different because you're going through your company.  Maybe they just batch up all the orders and execute them at the end of the date?\n\nAre you even allowed to place orders that are not market orders?
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NYSE stocks are typically three letters long.  They are only longer when you get into preferred stocks, difference classes of stocks, or other obscure types of securities.\n\neg. Newscorp different class\nNWS, NWSA\n\neg. Freddie Mac\nFRE, FREpB (aka FRE+B aka FREPRB depending upon your quote vendor), FREpH (FRE+H, FREPH).\n\nRarely do stocks have that classes of common shares that go to "G" (I couldn't find any currently listed) so I think the first symbol FMGC is the most likely and that FMG is likely to be the main stock code applicable.\n\nThen I did some searching for FMG and couldn't find it used in recently history. \n\nThere is a comapny listed on the NYSE (FMC Corp, NYSE:FMC) that had a spectacular run in 1987.\n\nLet's say you bought at the start of Spring (20 March) 1987 and sold at the end of Spring 1987 (20 June).  The buy price was $31.25 and sale price $38.875 representing a 24% gain in 3 months.\n\nIf the final date of the competition was later (eg. end of summer) - 21 Sep 1987, the price was $50.25 representing a 61% increase.  The stock made its highest close on 2nd Oct 1987 at $58.625 but like all stocks was hit by the 1987 crash (back down to $31 three weeks later).\n\nAccording to my reords, FCX wasn't listed back in 1987 (they listed in 1988), so I don't think this is the right one.\n\nHope that helps you in your quest....
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I think you're asking something different than what's been addressed so far...\n\n1.  An investor (could be an invdividual like you or me, could be a professional investor such as a hedge fund) first gets a quotation for the stock.  Nowadays this is done via the Internet (you and me) or over a dedicated electronic system with a terminal in the fund's office (hedge fund guy.)\n\n2.  Next step is to decide what kind of order to place.  There are two basic types: 'market orders' are orders to buy the shares at the best available price at the moment the order reaches the trading destination (more on that in a sec) and 'limit' orders specify a maximum price you are willing to pay; if the prevailing price when the order reaches the trading destination is above that your order won't be filled.\n\n3. The 'trading destinations' take several possible forms.  Exchanges are generally physical places with folks running around, waving arms, pointing and scribbling while they fill orders that have come from the folks described above.  But there are also electronic trading destinations such as Nasdaq and 'ECNs' like INET, Brut, Archipelago and others in which orders are simple entered into an electronic 'order book' and whenever a buyer's price and a seller's price match, a trade is made.\n\n4.  When you, or I, or the hedge fund guy want to trade we have to give our order to a brokerage firm and they will represent our order in one of the venues described above.  They try to match our order with someone else willing to sell the stock to us (in my example we're using a buy order, so a seller is on the other side of the trade.)\n\n5. The brokerage firm will also handle whats called the 'settlement' of the trade.  The back office of our broker will take care of paying the seller's brokerage firm for the stock, and will get the shares from the seller's brokerage firm for deposit in our account.  This happens on the so-called 'settlement date', which is generally three business days after the trade date. \n\nWe now own the stock.\n\nVoila.\n\nGood luck.
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Just think of it like this - an opening transaction starts the position - long or short (a buy to open would be a long, a sell to open would be a short) and a closing transaction leaves you flat (buy to close = covering a short, sell to close = selling a long).  They ask this because shorting options can be extremly risky, and may brokers will not let you sell call options short.\nI don't know what quote software you're using, but the 45 and 55 sound like strike prices to me, you should look into that.\nWhen you buy one call option contract, you're buying the RIGHT to buy 100 shares of the stock at the predetermined price, not the obligation, and not the actual shares, but I'm probably splitting hairs here - yes, one contract is equivilant to 100 shares.\n\nOptions are bot and sold just like stock, you make money with them the same way you would trading stock - buy low and sell high (or visa versa).  One important distinction, long positions in options are intrinsically 'wasting assets' - they will lose value over time.\n\nThese are  more tricky and risky than plain equities, and it sounds like you need to do a little more research into them before you get started - don't start before you understand them completly.  I'm sure google would produce numerous sites that explain them and the different stratagies employed by options traders (spreads, straddles, covered calls etc.)\n\nGood luck to you!
207023
As you correctly know 'Short selling' means selling something that you do not have/own. this word is a common terminology used in the capital markets. This word is a combination of 2 concepts. In the capital markets especially the stock makets, if u hold a substantial quantity of a stock or if you are having a paticular stock and you still buy more of it, it means going long or it is said that you are holding a long position or you are long in that stock. Similarly, vice versa if you do not have a particular script/stock nd you still sell it, it means you are going short or you have a short position. The entire process of selling a stock not owned/possesed by you at the time of selling is called 'short selling' whereas the selling a stock owned by you at the time of selling is called 'long-selling' or commonly 'selling'. It is more of a kind of speculation however when done intelligently can give you good profits in a short time. However the catch is that when you short sell the quantity sold must be covered within a definite time frame like the same day, or 1 month from the date of selling,etc. short selling is done when the price of a stock has gone up substantially and you expect it to fall down from thereon. this happens because when the price goes up many people like you come out to sell thus creating more supply then the demand causing the price of the stock to go down. now when the stock goes down many people like you who had gone short earlier look to cover their position thus now creating more demand than supply. also in the stock markets there are people who are ready to buy and sell at every price because someone would find value at that price. You can't really argue as to why would someone like to buy or sell at a particular price coz its a relative concept and depends on person to person. some may find a stock value buy even at 1000 whereas according to you it might not be worth more than 900. Ans as buyers and sellers exist at all levels your stock is bought and sold at all levels.
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check this webisite for more understanding\nhttp://www.investopedia.com/articles/trading/04/031704.asp
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'John Blaze' is full of sh*t; you don't need $25K to daytrade. Open a brokerage account. Study John Murphy, "Technical Analysis of the Financial Markets". Don't trust money managers; they will rip you off. Take control of your money. Find a stock that has huge price swings daily or weekly such as Juniper Networks or Redback Networks. These are high 'beta' stocks. Depending on your age, part of your portfolio should be speculative. If you are in your 20s and your portfolio is less than 100K, then definitely you should be using your knowledge and investing in high beta stocks to profit greatly from their daily and weekly price swings. You have the years to do that. 'Short' the stock when it goes down, and go 'Long' when it goes up. As your portfolio grows to a couple Mil or so, then you can pull back and put some of it in stuff that is a little lower beta such as the QQQ. As an example of how well you can do by taking control of your money: if just do your normal 1% per day on that 100K porfolio over a year through profiting from the swings, how much would you have after one year? You got it my friend, way over $$$1Mil!! Give it whorl, go for it!
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EAG is trading this morning. $1.54 last trade, has traded over 65000 shares this morning. Whatever broker you are using is a moron. The pennies you are saving from using a moron is costing you lots of aggravation and lost trading opportunity. There are lots of discounters out there...i would find another if i were you!
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Blimey...there is certainly more to you that meets the eye isn't there Mr Raidehz??!! Am completely ignorant on all things business/stock etc...so have to compliment you as I'm sure its all pukka..what you says sounds completely confident and from someone who really knows his stuff...\nSo - a question for you: If I had @ £10,000 to invest, what is the best thing for me to invest it in right now to virtually guarantee good payback within a relatively short timespan......?
200349
Here's a little something I've learned about Cramer. When he pushes a stock, the next day in the first 1/2 hr, the stock goes up. To make money off of his hype, get ready to short it.
503319
Occasionally the charts are correct.  Occasionally they are not. When they are not it is call a whip saw.  I tend to use charts but I do not rely on them completely.  I have been whip sawed more than once.  If the stock if fundamentally sound and the chart appears good, then I am apt to invest in it.  I have frequently regretted it.
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What you are hoping to capture by buying a calendar spread is the decay of the first expiring option relative to the decay of the second. Read "Options as a Strategic Investment".\n\nA short term option loses its time value faster than a longer term option. So, if the decay on the longer is a penny a day...and the decay on the shorter option is 1/8 a day...you are capturing 11 1/2cents per day and protecting yourself in case of a big market move. Is it a given that you'll make money??? Absolutely not. Every time you think that, think to yourself "there are a million other people out there that have thot about this for at least 25 years...chances are I am not thinking anything original" !
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I have a great trading pair for you.  Basically you pick 2 stocks that are very similar, but you think one is better than the other.  So you short the one you don't like (Sell-short) and go long on the one you do like.  I think wind energy is going to be a better investment than coal, so I want to go long on Florida Power and Light (FPL), because they are the nation's largest owner of wind farms.  I want to sell-short TXU, because they are planning on building up to 10 new coal-fired power plants.  \n\nNow, even if both stocks go down, as long as FPL goes down less than TXU, you will make money.\n\nIf you are looking for other strategies, and to see what the best traders are buying and selling, I would suggest 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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i would check with a brokerage firm rather than a bank. stock brokers would want to lock up the stock for sale when it is eligible and therefore would be better equipped to evaluate its worth.\n\ncall any of the major companies or discounters like Schwab and ask for the department that handles 144 stock.
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Well, your stock is not worthless, its worth $3 per share right now (and thats up from just $2 per share a few days ago), you can simply open an account and sell it if you want.\n\nNo telling what the stock will do from here.  They filled a Chapter 11 bankruptcy (reorganization), not Chapter 7 (liquidation), meaning they are trying to cut costs, sell whatever they can, and emerge from the bankruptcy.  When (if) they emerge they will try to give the stockholders as much value/ownbership of the new company as they can, but no telling what they will be able to give you (if anything).  \n\nThey may say we had to give 90% ownership to other people to get enough money to reopen, or they may be able to get money to reopen with less (or more) of the company given away, again no way to tell (or they may never get the money to reopen and they will eventually end up liquidating the company and then you'll almost certainly get nothing)\n\nSo, you can just sell what you have for 3$ per share (as of today), or you may want to say what the heck lets roll the dice and see what happens, and hold on to the stock (realizing down the road you could get alot more or alot less than that 3$ per share, again very hard to say).\n\nGood luck with it.\n\nBy the way, here is the link to your stocks current sell price.\n\nhttp://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=DCNAQ.PK
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This sounds like a private placement to me. You must look at the number or shares / net worth of the company. Have the financial been certified? If not stay away from it. The books could be cooked. Listed stocks are sold on an exchange with a bid and asking price. You just have to determine if it is a good value if you wish to purchase it.
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You need to add more details to your question.  Are you referring to closing stock PRICE?