How does trading pairs works when it comes to stocks?
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I have a great trading pair for you.  Basically you pick 2 stocks that are very similar, but you think one is better than the other.  So you short the one you don't like (Sell-short) and go long on the one you do like.  I think wind energy is going to be a better investment than coal, so I want to go long on Florida Power and Light (FPL), because they are the nation's largest owner of wind farms.  I want to sell-short TXU, because they are planning on building up to 10 new coal-fired power plants.  \n\nNow, even if both stocks go down, as long as FPL goes down less than TXU, you will make money.\n\nIf you are looking for other strategies, and to see what the best traders are buying and selling, I would suggest http://www.top10traders.com - this is a free site that lets you create a portfolio of stocks with $100,000 in "play" money.  Each day the site ranks the best performing portfolios, so you can see how your picks perform compared to other investors.  You can also read posts on investing from the best traders, as well as share your own investing ideas.\n\nHere are this month's best traders:\n\nhttp://www.top10traders.com/Top10Standings.aspx\n\nGood luck!
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the company would make an application to NASDAQ, AMEX or NYSE/ARCA. if they meet the minimum listing requirements then they will apply if they so choose. see the websites of the various exchanges for the requirements.\n\nmany pinksheet or bulletin board companies say they are going to get listed but never do. they just use that to pump up the price of the stock, be wary of such claims if they can't meet the minimums.
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If you tossed a coin, you have an equal chance of it landing heads as you do tails.  If you tossed it multiple times and it came up tails more often, then while you have the same raw possibility of it coming up tails next time, the likelihood (assuming a balanced coin) is that you are about to face a time of heads coming up more frequently.\n\nStocks are not coins.  It isn't just chance that sets a price up or down on any given day.  Still, if the company has been on the top ten biggest gainers list for three days, I'd start "betting" down because a "correction" is coming.  That is the closest thing to the 'coin toss' kinds of probabilities as you will get.  If you are trying to tie "probability concepts" to "being a good stock market analyst", I can tell you right now, you won't be a good stock market analyst.  Sorry.  As much as we popularly talk about the stock market being a crap shoot, it isn't.
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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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Stocks don't always make money, that is the risk you take when you buy them.  You just hope you pick enough winners to make up for the losers in the long run.\n\nStocks don't have any memory, either...and neither should you.  What you paid for a stock last year has nothing to do with what is it worth today.  You need to forget about all that, and decide whether you think the stock will go up or not.  If not, sell it, and put your money in a better place.  It hurts, but if you can't do this, you don't belong in the stock market.
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I'm asumming you are referring to purchasing stocks on different exchanges.  Sometimes there is a small spread difference, but arbritragers usually eliminate that very quickly.  Also, the fees may be slightly different.
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Legally NO.  They need to show their full record.   A good trader is one that has more wins than losses, that doesn't mean they don't have a fair percentage of trades that fail.  Hence one reason diversification is so important!
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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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If you put in a limit order for $5.00 and the stock trades as low as $5.00 you may not get filled, or if it is a lot of shares you may get a partial fill. Any market orders placed before the limit price was hit will be ahead of you and there may not be enough sellers at the low price to make everyone happy.\n\nBut in general you will get them at that price or fractions of a penny better if you use someone like ameritrade and it trades through your price.
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Under normal circumstances almost zero initial capital is in publicly traded stock.  The vast majority of companies never trade on one of the markets at all.\n\nHope this helps!
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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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Trading currency means borrowing in currency X and converting it into currency Y in the hope that currency Y will appreciate against currency X.  When you are ready to close your trade, you convert back from currency Y to currency X.  If Y has appreciated against X, you make a profit.  \n\nNowadays currency trading has been made very easy.  You just have to decide whether you want to buy or sell a particular pair of currency.  For example, if you buy EUR/USD at 1.30, you gain if the rate goes up and lose if it goes down.
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Stock is ownership in a company. You buy shares of a company. Let's say Company A is worth $30.00 per share. You can buy however many shares at that price. Each day, the value of that share fluctuates (goes up or down).\n\nIdeally, you want to buy the shares at a low (cheap) and sell at a high (expensive).\n\nYou can earn the most money by investing in stocks, compared to bonds and money markets. (You can also lose a lot, so be careful.)
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many studies have been done on this subject. here is just one of them www.cob.ohio-state.edu/fin/journal/dice/papers/1998/98-1.pdf\n\nforward splits can have the effect of bringing in more investors by a lowered entry price. many investors don't realize that it does not effect the overall value of the stock or the company. the real tough part is knowing if the stock has run up prior to the split because of leaked information or if it will move afterwards.\n\nmy personal observation has always been that a stock tends to move prior to the split, then settles down afterwards. very unscientific on my part.
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If the stock price is cheap, then a normal transaction of, say, 10000$ requires more shares so the volume looks high.  Contrast this to Berkshire, where people might trade just 1 share at a time, so the volume every day is low.
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I've done that with what I call 'loose change'.  Sometimes I've got a few dollars sitting around, obviously not going to make a lot of interest and not large enough for something substantial.  If some risky thing has been going down but I still feel it worth holding onto (its kinda fun when you sweat over a $90 stock moving a couple of bucks while a stock selling for less than a dime now goes for a buck or two, and yes, I've had that happen), then making an extra small trade can average down the value of your position.  When the stock starts to tick up for whatever reasons, you now have a lower break-even or profit point.  Again, it is only if you've got a few bucks left not doing anything and at Scottrade for $7 plus a half-point, it doesn't hurt much.  Of course, I also got a couple that are cluttering up my list because it will cost more to sell than they are worth today but that is part of the risk, right?
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Quick answer: They work on a bid/ask system just like stocks.