This tag is to be used for questions about stocks. If possible, this tag should be accompanied by a relevant country or stock exchange tag. Questions about specific stocks are discouraged but an example can be used to illustrate a point. Stock is also known as common stock or common equity; do not use this tag for preferred stock.
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Why isn't everybody rich?
This question came up after reading this question (stock market long term risks), in which it is re-iterated (as it has been many times on this site), that investing in the stock market, especially an index fund that tracks the top 100 / 500…
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Why would a company care about the price of its own shares in the stock market?
After a company has issued shares, why should it care if the value of the shares fluctuate?
Since the shares are now publicly traded, if the value fluctuates, that is strictly a transaction between buyer and seller, none of whom are directly related…
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Can someone explain a stock's "bid" vs. "ask" price relative to "current" price?
In my online brokerage account, I want to buy a particular stock and I see the following:
Bid: 13.20 x200 Ask: 13.27 x1,000
the current stock price is 13.22.
Can someone explain what the bid and ask prices mean relative to the current…
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Do I make money in the stock market from other people losing money?
Basically I am new to stock trading and neglect to see the differences between trading stocks and betting on sports. Basically I am "betting" on which company will do well, and this can change due to "upsets" just like in sports, but my main…
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Why is stock dilution legal?
What I always heard, since I was a child, was that if you own a stock share, you actually own a small share of a company. That seems to be the general consensus of what a stock share is.
Well, that said, let's assume I have 10 out of 100 shares of a…
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Why should we expect stocks to go up in the long term?
I have read in many personal finance books that stocks are a great investment for the long term, because on average they go up 5-7% every year. This has been true for the last 100 years for the S&P500 index, but is there reason to believe this trend…
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In the stock market, why is the "open" price value never the same as previous day's "close"?
This is something that is mind-boggling to me, and it is particularly obvious in candlestick graphs:
Why is the open value never the same as the previous day's close value?
This is something I just don't get: on all the candlestick graphs, you can…
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Why is the stock market closed on the weekend?
It's all digital and done with computers these days, so why bother? Doesn't that just make the system less liquid, which is the opposite to one aim of having the stock market?
Plus can't you just play the futures market after hours anyway?
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Can someone explain the GME short squeeze situation to a non-stock trader?
GameStop Corp. (GME) stock is over $300 at the time of this post. I understand the 10,000 foot view of the story only: That some Reddit folks are buying up shares to squeeze a short seller.
But I don't understand how this works. Why buy shares?…
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Found old paper shares of Motorola Inc that has since been broken up
I found 36 physical shares of motorola inc from 1999. I know that since then the company has split up into a lot of subsidiaries/mergers.
Is there any to sell this physical stock or is it worthless? if not worthless, do you have any idea what the…
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Why does a company pay dividends at all?
If a company can lower the dividends and even stop paying them at all during hard times, why would they re-install them at all?
If I understand correctly a company pays dividends so that investors that buy stock from that company have a bigger…
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How does a public company issue new shares without diluting the value held by existing shareholders?
When a public company issues new shares, the total number of shares traded in a secondary market goes up. Assuming there is no change in the fundamentals of the company and the profitability, I would expect that the share price of the existing…
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If a broad long-term investment in the stock market is such a good deal, why don't banks do the "obvious" things?
There is a fundamental discrepancy or paradox that has been keeping me, and many others, away from the stock market. Before I explain it, let me mention some selected popular questions on this site in which the consensus is that in the long term a…
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Stock market long term risks
This question has been spurred by the following question which was on the 'Hot Network Questions' Is it a lie that you can easily make money passively in the stock market? . The answers to that question made it clear that it is in fact worthwhile to…
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How did this day trader lose so much?
I recently read this article about a day trader that lost $100,000:
A trader started a GoFundMe page to pay back $100,000 to E-Trade after a disastrous short
Please explain this, because I can not understand how this "trader" lost so much money. …
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