how the price of a stock is defined every minute during active trading?
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You used the example of Microsoft, which is a very actively traded stock with huge volume. \n\nWhat you are suggesting is either arbitrage, or stock manipulation; probably the latter. Surely you aren't mad at Microsoft?\n\nFor the size of this company and number of outstanding shares, it would take hundreds of millions of dollars to move the price of the stock significantly. You would never move it to $1, because everyone knows the stock is worth more than that, and that the company is not going out of business. You could sell a billion dollars of that stock and not cut it in half.\n\nIf you're near a brokerage office, stop by and look at a quote machine and observe the active bids for Microsoft -- there are millions of shares bid at every price level close to the current price. Those are the people that you will have to take out before you move the stock price significantly. \n\nThe floor traders and dealer/brokers and specialists do not literally "set" the stock price; supply and demand does that, and you better believe there's going to be a huge demand for Microsoft at $15 or $20, after you sold your billion dollars of stock, and after you get through the millions of shares quoted at bid. The net effect will be that you lose at least 10% and probably 20% on your foolish endeavor to try and manipulate the price against market forces, when demand comes surging in and drives the price back up.\n\nThat's a cool $200 million loss to you.
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FIFO, LIFO, and Average Cost generally refer to merchandise, especially food inventory. I'm not sure it really applies to stocks.
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This is called "trading between the chalk marks".  Look at how the stock has been trading, and see what the spread is usually as how fast a stock will grow, and when other people will "take their profit" and sell.\n\nOr you can set "hard" limits on your trading, like "I will sell 50% of my stock when it gains 25%."  That fixed position will help you at least lock in your profit at a predetermined price.
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Something like Yahoo Finance will have the general price.  If you're looking for more real-time quotes, if you get a demo account or a real account at most of the brokerage services, they will give you those quotes for free.  Often times, they only have the major crosses that are widely traded, though.
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"Always in the market " means always having a position in the market. You can switch from one asset to another, switch from "long" to "short" to be (all/mostly) fully invested.
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people are buying and selling stocks all the time...
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I'm not an expert but basically you gamble between prices i.e you'll bet that the price of a company's share will rise between,say, 105 to 112 points in a day. Something along those lines my friend.
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I assume this is a publicly traded company??  If not then the company sets the rules on how the stock is redeemed (sold). The least expensive, but not the quickest, route would be to open an Internet brokerage account. Otherwise go to any broker and expect to pay as much as a few hundred dollars.  Broker fees vary by broker, number of shares in the transaction and value of the stock. \n\nKEEP IN MIND - if this is publicly traded stock, protect it as you would cash.  If you lose it, it is gone.
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In simple words it is when stock market start gaining after a huge lose or decline.\nLet me explain in better way.\nSuppose the stock market in loosing points every day for the whole week and in next week it suddenly gained some points on Monday. We can say the market has done some correction on Monday.\nThanks and Good luck
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The price the stock is at the end of the day.\nExample\nOpening price (begining of the day) for BAC on 11/2/2006 was 53.36\nClosing price (end of the day) for BAC on 11/2/2006 was 53.55\nA 19 cent increase, or .35%
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One typically doesn't "set the price" of preferred stock itself.  The price is determined by what a willing buyer will pay.   \n\nThat said, one can set the "par value" of preferred stock, which usually has no relationship whatsoever to the actual market value of the stock.
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It depends on the brokerage whether they offer premarket and/or after market hours. Additionally not all stocks are traded pre and after. TDAmeritrade allows  pre and after trading.
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Are you asking in terms of forex trading? In forextrading, the value goes up and down daily. You can get more info at -\n\nhttp://the-forex-trading.blogspot.com
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Stock market indices are calculated from the quotes of the stocks of which they are composed. It is therefore a sort of average. If an index rose 1% to 445, then it just means that this average stock price rose one percent.\n\nThe number of stocks included and the exact way the calculation is done, is different from one index to another. \n\nFor instance:  the Dow Jones is composed of 30 stocks, the 30 biggest companies in the US and the value is just the sum of the of the values of the composants, multiplied by a suitable number.\n\nThe SP 500 contains (you guessed it) 500 stocks, weighted by their size, and is therefore more representative for the economy as a whole.\n\nOther indices take also in account the number of stocks in circulation, the amount of stocks exchanged each day, etc.
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I want to say 4pm their time. I use it as a gauge as to how my foreign investments are going to do teh next US stock market day.
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Any site where you can get periodic prices (daily prices are available on Yahoo Finance in the chart section).  Calculate the correlation using the periodic price change for each stock.
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Look up stock symbol  BBBB\nThey have evrything.