how many stock (separate companies) are traded (NYSE, NASDAQ and AMEX combined) in the US?
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I think, but not sure, that the number is around 7500 companies.
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There are several US option exchanges:  the CBOE, Amex, Philadelphia, Pacific, Intercontinental, Boston (the BOX), New York, Nymex.  Major options usually trade simultaneously on several exchanges.\n\nOption orders for persons outside the US trading US options through an online brokerage registered in their country of residence are executed in the US by jitney services subcontracted to their brokerage.  Usually, neither the individual investor nor his local brokerage can specify which exchange the order will be routed to.  The jitneys control the routing.  This is why it's irrelevant for the outside-US option trader to be concerned with which exchange, etc.\n\nThere are ancient & complex problems associated with routing of option orders but the bottom line is that these can definitely be tolerated.\n\nDon't quite understand what you mean by offline trading.  If you mean telephoning a live representative to place each order in the UK, the commissions will eat you alive.  My guess is that the number of online brokerages operating from the UK that offer deep-discount commissions for US options trading is limited.  To further encumber these trades with expensive agent-handled commissions would not be economical or efficient.\n\nYahoo finance presents option tables for each company that has options.  Their tables are not always accurate, but serve to offer a general profile of option trading at a particular point in time in the US.  They are probably using B/A (bid/ask) quotes from OPRA, the options pricing authority.  This will amalgamate quotes from the different exchanges - more or less - since arbs work any opportunities for arbitrage between the different exchanges.
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NASDAQ is originally known as National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations it  is an American electronic stock exchange. It was founded in 1971 by the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD), who divested it in a series of sales in 2000 and 2001. It is owned and operated by The Nasdaq Stock Market, Inc. (NASDAQ: NDAQ) which was listed on its own stock exchange in 2002. NASDAQ is the largest electronic screen-based equity securities market in the United States. With approximately 3,300 companies, it lists more companies and, on average, trades more shares per day than any other U.S. market. The current chief executive is Robert Greifeld.
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Most common websites, Yahoo Finance or most brokerage firms for instance, will give you company info.  Usually the charting feature will step you into the information you need visually, such as candle charts which show a daily trading high, low, open, and close.  Those are the easy places to start.  BTW, the New York Stock Exchange is usually abbreviated NYSE.  I don't know the BSE unless it is the old Boston Stock Exchange, a regional trading place that I didn't know was still in operation.
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http://www.nasdaq.com/reference/ipos.stm
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A stock market is a market for the trading of company stock, and derivatives of same; both those securities listed on a stock exchange as well as those only traded privately.\n \nAlthough common, the term 'the stock market' is a somewhat abstract concept for the mechanism that enables the trading of company stocks. It is also used to describe the totality of all stocks, especially within one country, for example in the phrase "the stock market was up today", or in the term "stock market bubble".\n\nIt is distinct from a stock exchange, which is an entity (a corporation or mutual organization) in the business of bringing buyers and sellers of stocks together. For example, 'the stock market' in the United States includes the trading of stocks listed on the NYSE, NASDAQ, and Amex, and also on the OTCBB and Pink Sheets.
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The Wilshire 5000 index covers the majority of public traded companies in the US. The index tracks over 6000 actual companies.\n\nThe index funds that track that usually buy a representative sampling of those companies. It would be too expensive and difficult to buy them all.\n\nCheck the NYSE, Amex, Nasdaq & pinksheets.com sites
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The stock symbol in the U S is NTDOY.  Currently trades at $28.41.  8 U S ADRs equals 1 Japanese share.
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Assuming you mean India, there are two exchange traded funds (ETF's) which are baskets of stocks in India. They are; IIF and IFN and you should be able to get quotes and/or charts for them on any quote provider such as Yahoo. It is probably safer to trade the ETF's than individual issues, but if you are looking to trade individual stocks there are a number of companies in India that trade as US depository receipts on the New York Stock Exchange.
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both the nasdaq and dow are summations of many companies' stocks. the dow is composed of about 30 big companies and is the best index for the overall stock market. the nasdaq is a couple hundred successful companies. \n\nbasically, each company sells equity in the form of stocks. owning a share of stock means that you own a small piece of the company and are entitled to vote for the managers and receive dividends should the company decide to pay them.
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There are two ways to do this. One is to actually go to the dow jones website where they break out the information or two, is to take an arithmeetic average of the P/E of all 30 components (IBM, MSFT, WMT, DELL, etc)
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visit this link It contains all what you need\nthanks\n\nhttp://www.tdd.lt/slnews/Stock_Exchanges/Stock.Exchanges.html
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About the best I could find was this, which lists NYSE info for 1900-2003. You have to put the numbers in a graph, but the data is here. Best of luck.\n\nhttp://www.nysedata.com/nysedata/Default.aspx?tabid=115\n\nGo to Historical and then look under   Annual reported volume, turnover rate, reported trades (mils. of shares) (1900-2003)
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Avanir now trades on the NASDAQ as AVNR since 11 Apr 2006 - it used to trade as AVN.R on the AMEX so I think there must have been a glitch in Yahoo's systems.\n\nWhy not ask Yahoo?
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New York Stock Exchange (NYSE)
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It looks like the top three are:\n\nSLMA\nFord\nAMR Corp\n\nyou should know that while the NYSE trades bonds, it is a very small part of the bond market.  NYSE mainly trades odd lot retail business, while the vast majority of bonds are traded over-the-counter by dealers.  These bonds are probably not among the most actively traded corporates.
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You can visit the website of Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and find all the listed/quoted companies in U.S. and their filings with SEC.