Is there a way to know in real-time if a stock is just being sold or if someone is shorting it?
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short sales are reported only once a month, I believe. So not only not in real time but also not in any time at all.
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go there : http://moneycentral.msn.com/detail/stock_quote?Symbol=nok
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Use stock screener from:\n\nmorningstar.com or finance.yahoo.com
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There's a latest review on this site\n\nhttp://explodingstocks.com/blog/?p=19
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If the company was public and was acquired, you should own stock in the new company, depending on the offer.\n\nCheck with any trader or research the company who bought them.  If you held the shares in a brokerage account, they would have given you a statement showing how many shares you own of the new company.
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There are litterally hundreds of internet sites where you can check the prices. \n\nHere are a couple:\n\nhttp://finance.yahoo.com/\n\nYou can create several portfolios and have the site track the prices for you.  Click on my portfolio at the top right of the page.\n\nHere is another:\n\nhttp://www.marketwatch.com/tools/marketsummary/default.asp?siteid=mktw\n\nClick on mymarketwatch at the top right.\n\nYou can also go directly to the NASDAQ and NYSE sites and obtain stock quotes.\n\nNASDAQ\n\nhttp://www.nasdaq.com/\n\nNYSE\n\nhttp://www.nyse.com/
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market theory suggests shorting a stock (selling a stock not owned with the expectation it can be purchased in the future at a price lower than for which it was sold) in substantial enough quantities creates a temporary imbalance in the supply/demand equilibrium, requiring a lower price to attract buyers to return the stock to a new, but lower s/d equilibrium price.  This is a short run phenomenon for liquid stocks.  It should be noted that stocks with substantial uncovered open short interest are actually less resistant to price drops.
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No there is no real way to tell the shorting numbers by just looking at the volume.
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For every share sold, there is a share bought; \nfor every seller, there is a buyer.\nThe money that you lost might have gone to a short-seller who first sold the stock at $40 and then bought it back at $30, or it might have gone to somebody who bought the stock at $30 and will (in the future) sell the stock at $40. (By the way - the company itself might have been the buyer!)\nBottom line is that the $10 did NOT go INTO your pocket, it came OUT of your pocket!
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There's a latest review on this site at the site below\n\nhttp://explodingstocks.com/blog/?p=7
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do you mean on yahoo finance? yahoo doesn't offer a free real time ticker. however if you have an online brokerage account, they should provide you with a real time ticker for free.
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More than likely it is not a publicly traded company, as yet. The stock information will only come from the company itself.
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Do you have someone like Schwab or Merril Lynch managing your account? Is this a 401k? You can get your account activity online through whomever is brokering your account. If it's through your work, go to the personnel office and ask for the information booklet on how to access your account information. If you just want to know how your stock is doing, click stocks on your Yahoo! home page and enter the symbol SHLD. (Kmart owned by Sears holding Co.) That will tell you the value.
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TRY YAHOO STOCK ADVANCED SEARCH.  IT ALLOWS YOU TO SEARCH AND COMPARE DIFF STOCKS ON ALMOST ANY ASPECT OF THE STOCK, VOL, SHRS OUTS., DIVD....EXT.  YAHOO/FINANCE/INVESTING/STOCKS/STOCK SCREENER.
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You need only ask yourself one question and you shall have your answer. \n\nIf you knew which stocks were going up and when, why would you want to tell anybody for any price?\n\nThere you have, enough said?
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This is much harder to do than it may seem.  The chief problem may be that you are keying on the earnings reporting date, not the quarter ending date.  \n\nThus, if a company reports great results for the quarter 1/06-3/06, but they report their earnings on 4/15/06, you want to see what happened to the stock beginning 4/15 going forward (and you may or may not be interested in the activity on 4/15 itself depending on whether they reported before the market opened, or after it closed).  To do this analysis precisely and automatically with some sort of screening software may not be possible because the earnings reporting dates vary.\n\nBest way I can think of to do this is go to \n\nwww.earnings.com\n\nNot all companies info will be given here, but for a whole lot of companies you can get the history of conference calls for a company, what they reported as earnings, and how this reported number compares to their guidance if they gave any.  Based on the time of day for the conference call you can also make a good guess as to whether the company reported earnings before the market opened or after the market closed.  From there you have to just look for companies that consistently beat quidance and had increasing earnings and check them out.\n\nAlso, though you are not asking for my advice, let me throw it in anyhow (you can ignore it if you want).  It sounds like you are trying to get a system for buying certain companies before earnings hoping for either a pop in price after earnings or a slow progression upwards until the next earnings date.  I think you may be onto something, but I doubt you will find an easy little system to follow.  Each company behaves differently (some always beat earnings, some usually hit earnings, some are erratic) but the companies behavior is well known by the people who track the stock and probably built into the price before earnings.  Thus, you are trying to estimate what actual earnings will be compared not to what past earings have been, nor compared to the companies own guidance but rather compared to the markets consensus of what the earnings should be and who knows what that number is.  Also, more important than the companies earnings might be their forward guidance and this may drive the price alot more than the actual earnings.\n\nTo give an example for that last sentence, supposed a company consistently beats earnings by varying amounts, and is growing at 20-30% per year.  They guide their earnings 10% above last years number, but since they always beat the market may decide they are just being cautious and based on how their industry has been chugging along the market prices the stock as if earnings will come in 30% above last year.  Earnings come in and are 20% above last year.  On the day they report earnings, the company shows 20% growth, and is still 10% above quidance but will nonetheless probably have a really bad day because the actual earnings are 10% below what the market was expecting.\n\nTo give another example suppose a company is growing 20%, is expected to earn 20% more than last year, hits the number perfectly, but then guides lower for next quarter.  Watch out below, the earnings in this case is meaningless.\n\nI guess what I'm saying is there are alot of details to consider and if you get it right 2/3rd of the time you may end up a millionaire in spite of having some really bad days.  Anyhow, www.earnings.com may be the place to look for this data, and best luck with your analysis.
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There are really no "better sites" for that. Just pick one of the big names like ameritrade or scottrade. As far as making money, when you short a stock you are betting that the value of the stock will decrease over time. So if you think company x is going to do poorly and you short(sell) them at 10 dollars a share and then later buy them back at 5 dollars a share you will have made 5 dollars a share minus trading costs.