In stocks and share dealing what determines the spread between bid and offer prices..?
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It changes constantly.\n\nBid prices are the outstanding buy orders.\nOffer prices are the outstanding sell orders.\n\nIf the lowest offer matches the highest bid, a trade is made.  If there is a gap, say, the highest bid is 1,90 and the lowest offer is 1,94 , that means that there is currently no-one prepared to pay more than 1,90 to buy, and no-one prepared to accept less than 1,94 to sell.  There will be no trade unless:\n1) someone places a "market" order, ie buy/sell at the current bid/offer prices\n2) someone places a high bid matching the low offer, (or v.v.).\n\nSometimes there is no spread.  Bid and offer match, (with high volumes).  Sometimes the spread can be enormous , and sometimes it can even be negative...
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Shares purchased in DRIP plans have no impact on the market price.\nShares purchased through DRIP programs are not purchased on the open market.  Those shares are coming from the company, either from shares they hold, or newly issued.
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When you set the selling price. That if you buy at 10.00\nyou put a stop loss for 9.75. It will automatically sell at that price with a loss to you.
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They all are expensive...\nI am a professional trade...\nI pay around $1.25 per 100 shares...\nTry to get per share deal... rather than per trade deal...\nPay as you go deal...\nLike $1.25 per 100 shares and $12.50 per 1000 shares...\n\n\nWhy dont you mail me sometime at kgirishraman@yahoo.com\nand I can get you a good deal.\n\nKarey Girish\nkgirishraman@yahoo.com
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If the acquisition is approved by the shareholders then on closing date all shareholders of record will be given $10/share.  That means if you bought the stock at $9, you would make $1/share.  I believe that answers your question, but if you're asking if the stock price has to trade at $10 during market hours, not necessarily.  This is just a broad brushstroke.  If you would like additional details on this feel free to drop me a line.  Good luck!
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Mainly an accounting function.  Kind of like getting two tens for a twenty.  With some high priced stocks, it can help generate trading on the floor because the bid and ask price can be too far apart.\n\nSome believe that stock splits indicate a company is prospering but there are plenty of cases when that doesn't hold water.
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It really depends on the length of your trade.\n\nSome trades run through the day - then the trade could be fully technical or fully based on news.\n\nOther trades can run through months - just letting the trade run with the profits. With that you would be using both technical as well as fundamental to plot out an exit plan as the stock moves to become even more profitable.\n\nIn my opinion, behavioural aspects of the markets are all represented in the charts.
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If it's a public company, then it's going to be stock price. Generally, coporate restructuring, layoffs, and the like are done to bring up the stock price. Shareholders like that. Also too you will see corporate restructuring through mergers and acquisitions to reduce overlap (e.g. HR departments, accounts payable departments, etc).
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Volume represents the number of shares traded for the day (or whatever frequency the chart is that you are looking at).\n\nIt affects the share price in a ton of ways. The size, polarity, pattern, and previous days of the volume indicator, combined with the position/pattern of the chart is the main factor. These patterns will display a different combination of greed/fear in every end user. The popular consensus of this feeling is what will motivate both buyers and sellers and ultimately determine direction/speed of the share price.
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There are two kind of prices...\n\n1) price to sell\n\n2) price to not sell\n\nIf you're hurry just consider the first option...
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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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The problem with a public company selling new shares to the general public is that it sends a bad signal.  Outsiders looking at the company will  think that they would never sell shares if the insiders thought the shares were underpriced -- so they must be overpriced.  On average, when a firm sells new shares, the price of existing shares will drop somewhere between 3% to 5%.\n\nThere are a few ways that insiders can sell shares that do not affect the stock price.  \n\nOne is to sell them as a private placement to knowledgable investors.  For example, a company that makes computer components that they sell to Dell may sell shares to Dell.\n\nThe second is to guarantee the equity.  A bad company couldn't sell equity & give a guarantee to buy it back at cost -- but a good company could.  The way they do thisis to sell convertible bonds.  If the company does well, the bonds get turned into equity, and the company gets what it wants.  If it doesn't, then the investors get interest on their money & eventually get their money back -- just like a guarantee.  Studies show that there is very little impact on stock price.\n\nThe third way does have an impact on stock price -- but not on the investment value of insiders.  That is to have a rights offering.  With a rights offering, new shares are offered to existing stock holders at a discount.  For example, suppose your shares are at $20.  You are given the right to buy new shares at $16.  If you do it, your shares should be worth 20+16 = 36 -- or $18 per share.  WHat usually happens with a rights offering is that the share price moves to $18.  There is a drop in price, but there is no drop in the value of your investment.\n\nI can't think of a fourth way right now -- but it might be to sell warants or employee stock options.\n\nBTW -- it turns out that when banks or growth firms with no debt issue stock, there is no drop in stock price (on average).  It is only with more mature companies that have already issued debt.  This fact has never been published -- except as part of my doctoral dissertation.
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There are a lot in shares and bonds. It is also depending on your purpose also (e.g. if you are an investor, speculator or just want to study shares and bonds).\n\nTo me, the following things are important and must know:\n- what is shares and the difference between shares and bonds\n- how trading works\n- the relationship between risk and returns\n- the factors affecting share price and bond price\n- how to estimate the underlying share company and the bonds
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The price of stock varies depending upon the initial offering price, the number of shares available, and the demand.
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Sorry to say but there is no such equation.Stock prices are not determined by applying equation of previous days high, low prices. If u want to know the price of any particular share, u have to study the company, its financials, its future strategies and all that. Only then u can guess in which direction the company's stock price will move. Beside this  other factors like ecomonic factors, market regulations etc also have effect on stock market. Eg. if govt put ban on export of sugar then all sugar exporting companies will be suffered and their stock prices come down despite the company is showing good results in past. So do some homework on companies to PREDICT their opening prices
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The laws of supply and demand determine the price.  If the current price is $90 and no seller is willing to sell for less than $90 while buyers are willing to pay no more than $91, then the next several trades would likely occur at prices between $90 and $91.\n\nTypical trading ranges in the short term are much tigher than this.  So typically the range would be just a few pennies.
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Shares splits/bonuses are almost always rounded down. \n\nThe terms are always put into the share bonus memorandum filing.