If you sell stock, are you selling at the price at the time you sell or what the price is at close of day?
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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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For stock options, record as short term capital loss (assuming it's not a LEAP) on Schedule D, with the expiration date as the sale date and zero as the sale price. If it's an option on an ETF or Index, there are weird tax consequences, which you would neet to review at the IRS web site. \nThis is based on info from the IRS but not guaranteed. Suggest you talk to an accountant or the IRS.
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The bid/ask is 527.10 .  This is on the left.  When the market is open, the bid and ask will be different.  in this istance, the market is closed, so bid and ask is $527.10.  On the right is the current market that is still open.  It is $526.30.  This is the real time quote and is more accurate.  If you want to know which days, you can click on their calendar, and it will take you to that days charts and values.
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Buy a call when you are expecting a stock to go up.  A call is an option to buy.\n\nBuy a put when you expect the stock to go down.  A put is an option to sell.\n\nThe strike price determines the 'sales price'\n\nIf you expect goog to bounce, you would by a call for Dec, Jan, Feb, whenever for a strike price of 500.  Dec call would cost you $8 per share (you need to buy in contracts consisting of 100 shares to trade options).  If goog goes past $508 in a true options trade, you profit every cent after that.  You could essentially trade the option when it got close to 500 if there was enough time for the option to have value.\n\nIf you are expecting goog to continue the downward trend, you would buy a put.  The $480 strike for goog Dec option is trading at $7.40.  You essentially have the option to sell goog at $480, so if goog goes down past 472.60 you make money for every cent after that.  Also with the call option, you could just sell your option with more value if the stock starts going down and you still have the intrinsic (time sensitive) value left on the option.\n\nGood luck.
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It is the price you give to the broker, to sell the shares automatically, when the market price falls to that level. It prevents your holding from losing any more value. \nHowever it locks in the loss and you lose any gain on recovery.
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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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When the details of the buy-out are released the stock price will adjust accordingly.  If the buyout is announced to be $12 per share then the stock will trade at $12 (or very close) almost immediately.  You can sell the shares in the open market at that point in time.\n\nOtherwise, you will be offered shares of the parent company (one who is buying out smaller company).  The number of shares will be a dollar-weighted average of the shares you own.  You will still come out with the same dollar amount in the long run after the conversion but it will likely be far fewer shares.
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Ah, yes, the age old "but if I sell, the prices could go higher".  Sure, they can, and they can also go down.  If you sell and lock in your profits, prices could go higher.  But if you hold and and prices go down, you could find your profits quickly dwindling.  Can you see the future?  Do you have a crystal ball?\n\nThere are two emotions in the market that will kill you every time - fear and greed.  Fear keeps you out when you should be in and greed keeps you in longer than you should be.\n\nI'm not telling you to sell and lock in profits, but what do you think you should do?  In general, when prices take off that quickly, the down move is just a quick.  There is what is called "regression to the mean".  If you've locked in profit, be happy with it.  Believe me, I've learned from experience.  There were times when I should have sold to lock in my profits, but I got greedy and ended up losing a bunch when the prices turned.  If greed is keeping you holding on, that should be telling you something.  Could prices go higher?  Sure.  But there is an old saying "A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush".\n\nIf you believe you should absolutely hold for higher prices, then sell some of your options to lock in profits and let the others ride.  If prices continue higher, then you made more, but if they reverse, you haven't lost as much.
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The price at which a share can currently be Traded in the market
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Simply put, you're investing in the stock to go down. \n\nNormally, you'd buy to open, hope that the price goes up, then sell to close.  \n\nIf you thought the stock would go down, you'd do the opposite.  Sell to pen first, have the stock price go down, then buy to close.  You keep the difference minus commissions.\n\nOptions are different and a little more complex.  In options, usually you use sell to open in conjunction with a buy to open on a different option.  But you could just do what's called going naked.  \n\nYou sell to open and buy to close a "put" option if you thought the stock was going up.  Or you'd sell to open and buy to close a "call" option if you thought the stock would decrease.\n \nThis is the simple definition.  Trading options takes more education, so be careful if you decide to do so.  Because they are leveraged, you can lose money much, much faster with options if you don't know what you're doing.  Education is the key for consistent success.\n\nBest of luck.  Hope that helps!
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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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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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OK, you need to watch the stock prices and volumes very closely.  If the stock pull back with low volumes and the prices is just down a little bit, you should hold.  On the other hand, if the stock pull back with heavy volumes and the prices down like 3% or higher and the volumes are higher than the last trading session, you should sell the stock immediately.  The institutions are selling the stock, and you don't want to sit around watch your gains disappear.\n\nOther sell sign, if the stock repeately reach 52 weeks high with low volume, you want to sell it also.  Don't lost any money OK!
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Daytrading entirely depends on you. Can you buy the stocks low, and sell them high? There's nothing scammy about it, as long as you're making informed decisions and they pay off.
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"Sell short" means that you borrow some shares to sell. \n"Cover" means that you buy some shares so as to return them to where you borrow them from. \n\nWhen you sell short at 42 for 200 shares, you get $8400.\nBut, when you buy to cover at 45 for 200 shares, you pay $9000. \n\nTherefore, you have a net loss of $600 (ignoring trading cose, and the interest of borrowing shares).
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There are various ways in deciding whether to buy or sell a stock. The method you were describing in your question is called technical analysis. It is a method used by looking at trends, buying/selling timing, and momentum. Usually, when there are up and down arrows, this connotes a change in trend/direction of the stock. Of course, this is historical and cannot be a sure-fire way to determine the future direction of the stock. I believe technical analysis is for people who do not understand the equity capital markets very much, and thus, rely on trends and momentums instead.\n\nOne method used by real equity players is fundamental analysis. This is based on valuations and growth prospects of a specific company. It follows the basic belief: buy low and sell high. You buy stocks when you deem them undervalued and then you sell them if they are overvalued. The most basic way to do fundamental analysis is to do a discounted cash flow on the company and see if its stock price merits its future financials.\n\nTo answer your last question, when people short sell, it means that they sell a stock which they do not own. In this case, since they do not own the stock, they should essentially buy it to cover their sale. This technique is done when investors believe that a stock is going down. You sell it at a high price (essentially borrowing a stock ownership) and then buy at a low price (essentially paying back what you initially borrowed).
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If you think the market for oil commodities is going south (= is going to drop), then you sell them now.  (Yes, even if you don't own them, you can sell them and receive the going price.)  Then, to close the position, you must buy them back before the option expires.  If you're right (about the price dropping), then you will be buying them back at a lower price and can pocket the difference.\n\nWork with a reputable broker, they will explain in great detail the risks associated with this often employed investing principle.