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Below is an instruction that describes a task. Write a response that appropriately completes the request. ### Question: How can I spend less? ### Answer: There are many tactics you can use. If your biggest problem is regretting your larger purchases, I'd suggest giving yourself rules before making any purchases over a...
Below is an instruction that describes a task. Write a response that appropriately completes the request. ### Question: What is the different between one company's two OTCMKTS symbols? ### Answer: I have not looked in details but apparently the company has (at least) a dual listing in Hong Kong (its main listing, ticke...
Below is an instruction that describes a task. Write a response that appropriately completes the request. ### Question: Austrailian tax resident earning salary in the UK - how much tax do I pay on foreign income? ### Answer: This page and this page on the ATO website provide some information on tax rates. They're rathe...
Below is an instruction that describes a task. Write a response that appropriately completes the request. ### Question: Reinvesting dividends and capital gains ### Answer: First, do you get charged a commission or other fee for reinvesting? Second, why would capital gains and dividends be grouped together? If the bro...
Below is an instruction that describes a task. Write a response that appropriately completes the request. ### Question: Reinvesting dividends and capital gains ### Answer: No, the reinvestment is done as a courtesy. Consider, one can have, say, 100 shares of a $50 stock. A 2% dividend is $100/yr or $25/quarter. It woul...
Below is an instruction that describes a task. Write a response that appropriately completes the request. ### Question: Reinvesting dividends and capital gains ### Answer: I'd like to add that many companies offer Divident Re-Investment Plans or DRIPs, which is basically a regular automatic stock purchase program. More...
Below is an instruction that describes a task. Write a response that appropriately completes the request. ### Question: Reinvesting dividends and capital gains ### Answer: I have found The DRiP Investing Resource Center to be a useful resource for more information about DRIP investing. Moneypaper.com offers a list of ...
Below is an instruction that describes a task. Write a response that appropriately completes the request. ### Question: How does my broker (optionsXpress) calculate probabilities that the stock will hit a certain price? ### Answer: This chart concerns an option contract, not a stock. The method of analysis is to assume...
Below is an instruction that describes a task. Write a response that appropriately completes the request. ### Question: How does my broker (optionsXpress) calculate probabilities that the stock will hit a certain price? ### Answer: Their algorithm may be different (and proprietary), but how I would to it is to assume t...
Below is an instruction that describes a task. Write a response that appropriately completes the request. ### Question: what is a mortgage gift exchange? ### Answer: The issue is that the lender used two peoples income, debts, and credit history to loan both of you money to purchase a house. The only way to get a perso...
Below is an instruction that describes a task. Write a response that appropriately completes the request. ### Question: what is a mortgage gift exchange? ### Answer: I'm guessing since I don't know the term, but it sounds like you're asking about the technique whereby a loan is used to gather multiple years' gift allow...
Below is an instruction that describes a task. Write a response that appropriately completes the request. ### Question: How to get started with options investing? ### Answer: What is a good resource to learn about options trading strategies? Options are a quite advanced investment form, and you'd do well to learn a lot...
Below is an instruction that describes a task. Write a response that appropriately completes the request. ### Question: How to get started with options investing? ### Answer: One answer in four days tells you this is a niche, else there should be many replies by now. The bible is McMillan on Options Note - I link to t...
Below is an instruction that describes a task. Write a response that appropriately completes the request. ### Question: How to protect a Stock you still want to own from a downturn? ### Answer: If you really believe in the particular stocks, then don't worry about their daily price. Overall if the company is sound, an...
Below is an instruction that describes a task. Write a response that appropriately completes the request. ### Question: How to protect a Stock you still want to own from a downturn? ### Answer: Adding on to all the fine answers, you can consider selling a covered call. You will have to own a minimum of 100 shares. It w...
Below is an instruction that describes a task. Write a response that appropriately completes the request. ### Question: How to protect a Stock you still want to own from a downturn? ### Answer: Of the two, an option is a more reliable but more expensive means to get rid of a stock. As sdg said, a put option is basicall...
Below is an instruction that describes a task. Write a response that appropriately completes the request. ### Question: Buying non-qualified employee stock options that are going to expire? ### Answer: Options granted by an employer to an employee are generally different that the standardized options that are traded on...
Below is an instruction that describes a task. Write a response that appropriately completes the request. ### Question: What can make a stock price rise without good news or results? ### Answer: As a general principle the stock price on the stock market is controlled by an agreement between buyers and sellers. Some ini...
Below is an instruction that describes a task. Write a response that appropriately completes the request. ### Question: What can make a stock price rise without good news or results? ### Answer: It could be an endless number of reasons for it. It could simply just be a break through a long term resistance causing tech...
Below is an instruction that describes a task. Write a response that appropriately completes the request. ### Question: What can make a stock price rise without good news or results? ### Answer: The simple answer could be that one or more "people" decided to buy. By "people," I don't mean individual buyers of 100 share...
Below is an instruction that describes a task. Write a response that appropriately completes the request. ### Question: What happens if stock purchased on margin plummets below what I have in the brokerage? ### Answer: If the price had dropped to $4 from $50, and you had $5000 to start with on your account, you will be...
Below is an instruction that describes a task. Write a response that appropriately completes the request. ### Question: What happens if stock purchased on margin plummets below what I have in the brokerage? ### Answer: Different brokerages have different house rules for margin requirements and margin calls. You will l...
Below is an instruction that describes a task. Write a response that appropriately completes the request. ### Question: Is there extra risk in owning an ADR vs. the underlying stock? ### Answer: Yes, the ADR will trade on a separate exchange from the underlying one, and can (and does) see fluctuations in price that do ...
Below is an instruction that describes a task. Write a response that appropriately completes the request. ### Question: Why should the P/E ratio of a growth stock match its percentage earnings growth rate? ### Answer: This is only a rule of thumb. Peter Lynch popularized it; the ratio PE/growth is often called the Lync...
Below is an instruction that describes a task. Write a response that appropriately completes the request. ### Question: Why should the P/E ratio of a growth stock match its percentage earnings growth rate? ### Answer: Your observation is mostly right, that 1 is a the number around which this varies. You are actually r...
Below is an instruction that describes a task. Write a response that appropriately completes the request. ### Question: Why should the P/E ratio of a growth stock match its percentage earnings growth rate? ### Answer: To perhaps better explain the "why" behind this rule of thumb, first think of what it means when the P...
Below is an instruction that describes a task. Write a response that appropriately completes the request. ### Question: Can a company block a specific person from buying its stock? ### Answer: I assume you are talking about a publicly traded company listed on a major stock exchange and the buyer resides in the US. (Pri...
Below is an instruction that describes a task. Write a response that appropriately completes the request. ### Question: Can a company block a specific person from buying its stock? ### Answer: A more serious problem: how do you know who's really buying your stock? "Shell companies" are an increasingly obvious problem i...
Below is an instruction that describes a task. Write a response that appropriately completes the request. ### Question: Can a company block a specific person from buying its stock? ### Answer: In the UK, this is the very definition of a Public Limited Company. A Limited Company can restrict how its stock is trades a...
Below is an instruction that describes a task. Write a response that appropriately completes the request. ### Question: Can a company block a specific person from buying its stock? ### Answer: The company could use registered shares with restricted transferability, i.e. shares that require the consent of the issuing co...
Below is an instruction that describes a task. Write a response that appropriately completes the request. ### Question: Can a company block a specific person from buying its stock? ### Answer: The answer to this question is given by the fact that many public companies have people who are opposed to the company's aims o...
Below is an instruction that describes a task. Write a response that appropriately completes the request. ### Question: Treatment of donations of appreciated stock to a IRC §501(c)(7) Social Club? ### Answer: If cash donations are not deductable, stock contributions aren't either and I believe the same rules apply as f...
Below is an instruction that describes a task. Write a response that appropriately completes the request. ### Question: Standardized loan options to purchase employee stock options ### Answer: What you want is a cashless transaction. It's part of the normal process. My employer gives me 1000 options at $1, I never need...
Below is an instruction that describes a task. Write a response that appropriately completes the request. ### Question: How should I decide whether to buy more shares of a stock when its price drops? ### Answer: A key principle of economics is: Sunk costs are irrelevant. You bought the stock at 147 and it has now falle...
Below is an instruction that describes a task. Write a response that appropriately completes the request. ### Question: How should I decide whether to buy more shares of a stock when its price drops? ### Answer: There is no way to find out what future will be if you have only quote from past. In other words, nobody is ...
Below is an instruction that describes a task. Write a response that appropriately completes the request. ### Question: Can compensation income from an employee stock purchase plan be negative? ### Answer: The sentence you quoted does not apply in the case where you sell the stock at a loss. In that case, you recognize...
Below is an instruction that describes a task. Write a response that appropriately completes the request. ### Question: Gauge the strength of the resistance level of a stock just using EMA ### Answer: Firstly, you mean resistance not support, as a support is below the current price and resistance is above the price. Se...
Below is an instruction that describes a task. Write a response that appropriately completes the request. ### Question: Can someone explain recent AAMRQ stock price behavior to me? ### Answer: There are things that are clearly beyond me as well. Cash per share is $12.61 but the debt looks like $30 or so per share. I lo...
Below is an instruction that describes a task. Write a response that appropriately completes the request. ### Question: Can I invest in the London stock market when resident on a visa? ### Answer: There are no legal restrictions on doing this. If you're living in the UK, just open an account like any other resident of ...
Below is an instruction that describes a task. Write a response that appropriately completes the request. ### Question: What do I need to start trading in the NSE (National Stock Exchange)? ### Answer: To start trading at a minimum you need 3 things; Bank Account: This again is not must, but most preferred to transact....
Below is an instruction that describes a task. Write a response that appropriately completes the request. ### Question: What do I need to start trading in the NSE (National Stock Exchange)? ### Answer: Yes Absolutely! You will need to provide Sharekhan with a cancelled cheque from OBC which has your account number and ...
Below is an instruction that describes a task. Write a response that appropriately completes the request. ### Question: What do I need to start trading in the NSE (National Stock Exchange)? ### Answer: Yes, you can open a Trading Account at one place and a Demat Account at another place. Therefore you can open Trading ...
Below is an instruction that describes a task. Write a response that appropriately completes the request. ### Question: What are the tax implications of earnings from the stock market (BSE)? ### Answer: If you have held the stocks longer than a year, then there is no tax apart from the STT that is already deducted when...
Below is an instruction that describes a task. Write a response that appropriately completes the request. ### Question: Is the money you get from shorting a stock free to use for going long on other stocks? ### Answer: You will be charged a stock borrow fee, which is inversely related to the relative supply of the stoc...
Below is an instruction that describes a task. Write a response that appropriately completes the request. ### Question: Is the money you get from shorting a stock free to use for going long on other stocks? ### Answer: You sold $10,000 worth of stock so that money is essentially yours. However, you sold this stock wit...
Below is an instruction that describes a task. Write a response that appropriately completes the request. ### Question: Is it possible to buy stock as a gift for a minor without involving the guardians? ### Answer: You should talk to a lawyer. One solution I can think of is using a trust. Keep in mind that that may com...
Below is an instruction that describes a task. Write a response that appropriately completes the request. ### Question: Is it possible to buy stock as a gift for a minor without involving the guardians? ### Answer: This is an old question, but a new product has popped up that provides an alternative answer. There is a ...
Below is an instruction that describes a task. Write a response that appropriately completes the request. ### Question: Why most of apple stock price since 10years have been gained overnight? ### Answer: I'll answer this question: "Why do intraday traders close their position at then end of day while most gains can be ...
Below is an instruction that describes a task. Write a response that appropriately completes the request. ### Question: Announcement of rights offering (above market price) causing stock price increase [duplicate] ### Answer: This seemed very unrealistic, I mean who would do that? But to my immense surprise the market ...
Below is an instruction that describes a task. Write a response that appropriately completes the request. ### Question: Did the New York Stock Exchange ever close on a weekday so they could file paperwork? ### Answer: Yes, from June 1968 until December 1968, they closed the NYSE every Wednesday so they could catch up o...
Below is an instruction that describes a task. Write a response that appropriately completes the request. ### Question: How do I get the latest or even realtime information of institutions stock buy/sell action? ### Answer: Of course not, this is confidential information in the same way that I cannot phone up your bank...
Below is an instruction that describes a task. Write a response that appropriately completes the request. ### Question: College student interested in starting a stock portfolio, how much should I invest? ### Answer: You should invest a trivial (<500$USD) amount of money in a stock portfolio. If you aren't able to make...
Below is an instruction that describes a task. Write a response that appropriately completes the request. ### Question: Can company owners use lay offs to prevent restricted stock from vesting before an acquisition? ### Answer: Depending on your local laws, such a layoff may be an unlawful act. If the whole purpose of ...
Below is an instruction that describes a task. Write a response that appropriately completes the request. ### Question: Can company owners use lay offs to prevent restricted stock from vesting before an acquisition? ### Answer: As littleadv says it depends on the local laws. Normally one shouldn't be too worried. Typ...
Below is an instruction that describes a task. Write a response that appropriately completes the request. ### Question: How to make an investment in a single company's stock while remaining market-neutral? ### Answer: You can employ a hedging strategy using short selling, put options, or other methods that will partial...
Below is an instruction that describes a task. Write a response that appropriately completes the request. ### Question: How to make an investment in a single company's stock while remaining market-neutral? ### Answer: For the type of market neutrality you desire, free from crash risk, it's best to hedge the shares with...
Below is an instruction that describes a task. Write a response that appropriately completes the request. ### Question: Periodicity in stock charts ### Answer: If the period is consistent for company X, but occurs in a different month as Company Y, it might be linked to the release of their annual report, or the paymen...
Below is an instruction that describes a task. Write a response that appropriately completes the request. ### Question: Deal with stock PSEC ### Answer: It looks like it has to deal with an expiration of rights as a taxable event. I found this link via google, which states that Not only does the PSEC shareholder have ...
Below is an instruction that describes a task. Write a response that appropriately completes the request. ### Question: Why do stock or commodity prices sometimes rise suddenly just before market close? ### Answer: This is often the case where traders are closing out short positions they don't want to hold overnight, f...
Below is an instruction that describes a task. Write a response that appropriately completes the request. ### Question: How does order matching happen in stock exchanges? ### Answer: But how does the quantity matching happen? For example, if I want to buy 1000 shares at $100, but there is only one seller to sell 10 sha...
Below is an instruction that describes a task. Write a response that appropriately completes the request. ### Question: How does order matching happen in stock exchanges? ### Answer: To answer your question in its entirety there's more information we need (exchange, session, traded security, order type, etc.). Most exc...
Below is an instruction that describes a task. Write a response that appropriately completes the request. ### Question: Consequences of buying/selling a large number of shares for a low volume stock? ### Answer: The effect of making a single purchase, of size and timing described, would not cause market disequilibrium,...
Below is an instruction that describes a task. Write a response that appropriately completes the request. ### Question: Consequences of buying/selling a large number of shares for a low volume stock? ### Answer: I've alway thought that it was strange, but the "price" that gets quoted on a stock exchange is just the pri...
Below is an instruction that describes a task. Write a response that appropriately completes the request. ### Question: Consequences of buying/selling a large number of shares for a low volume stock? ### Answer: First, If you buy $10K of a penny stock and try to sell it that afternoon, you probably won't get your money...
Below is an instruction that describes a task. Write a response that appropriately completes the request. ### Question: Consequences of buying/selling a large number of shares for a low volume stock? ### Answer: If you are the only one who puts in a large market buy order, then it would definitely push the price up. Ho...
Below is an instruction that describes a task. Write a response that appropriately completes the request. ### Question: Consequences of buying/selling a large number of shares for a low volume stock? ### Answer: It's illegal and you can go to jail because it exploits the small companies and their investors who believe ...
Below is an instruction that describes a task. Write a response that appropriately completes the request. ### Question: Stock Exchange price target ### Answer: Price targets aren't set day to day, because of market fluctuations are so high from day to day. But in their stock recommendations, brokerage firms will often...
Below is an instruction that describes a task. Write a response that appropriately completes the request. ### Question: New to Stock Trading ### Answer: Good ones, no there are not. Go to a bookstore and pick up a copy of "The Intelligent Investor." It was last published in 1972 and is still in print and will teach ...
Below is an instruction that describes a task. Write a response that appropriately completes the request. ### Question: New to Stock Trading ### Answer: Investopedia got some good tutorials on stocks and a good simulator to play around without loosing hard earned money. http://www.investopedia.com/university/stocks/ ...
Below is an instruction that describes a task. Write a response that appropriately completes the request. ### Question: Should I invest in the pre-IPO company stock offered by my employer? ### Answer: Depending on your perspective of it, I can see reasons for and against this idea. Only with the benefit of hindsight ca...
Below is an instruction that describes a task. Write a response that appropriately completes the request. ### Question: Should I invest in the pre-IPO company stock offered by my employer? ### Answer: Should I invest money in the pre-IPO stocks soon to be offered by the company that I work for? Is it wise to do this?...
Below is an instruction that describes a task. Write a response that appropriately completes the request. ### Question: Should I invest in the pre-IPO company stock offered by my employer? ### Answer: Whether it's wise or not depends on what you think and what you should consider are the risks both ways. What are the r...
Below is an instruction that describes a task. Write a response that appropriately completes the request. ### Question: Would it make sense to sell a stock, then repurchase it for tax purposes? ### Answer: What you're talking about is called "tax gain harvesting," and it is considered good tax management. From The Obli...
Below is an instruction that describes a task. Write a response that appropriately completes the request. ### Question: When Employees are “Granted” Stock Options, is the Company encouraging Long-Term investments from them? ### Answer: There are two things to consider: taxes - beneficial treatment for long-term holding...
Below is an instruction that describes a task. Write a response that appropriately completes the request. ### Question: How can I calculate the volatility(standard deviation) of a stock price? and/or ROI (return on investment) of a stock? ### Answer: the "how" all depends on your level of computer savvy. Are you an Exc...
Below is an instruction that describes a task. Write a response that appropriately completes the request. ### Question: How can I calculate the volatility(standard deviation) of a stock price? and/or ROI (return on investment) of a stock? ### Answer: Use the Black-Scholes formula. If you know the current price, an opti...
Below is an instruction that describes a task. Write a response that appropriately completes the request. ### Question: How can I calculate the volatility(standard deviation) of a stock price? and/or ROI (return on investment) of a stock? ### Answer: ROI and volatility should be calculated over a representative period ...
Below is an instruction that describes a task. Write a response that appropriately completes the request. ### Question: How is a long call and short stock portfolio equivalent to lending money ### Answer: hmmm. I think it's because in both cases, you must pay for it up front, before the positions are closed out. You ow...
Below is an instruction that describes a task. Write a response that appropriately completes the request. ### Question: Where to find the full book of outstanding bids/asks for a stock? ### Answer: For starters, that site shows the first 5 levels on each side of the book, which is actually quite a bit of information. ...
Below is an instruction that describes a task. Write a response that appropriately completes the request. ### Question: List of web sites or online forums for stock picking and security analysis ### Answer: This is a great forum, mostly focused around mutual funds though: http://www.bogleheads.org/ ###end
Below is an instruction that describes a task. Write a response that appropriately completes the request. ### Question: Do I need to report a capital gain/loss for stock given as a bonus and already taxed? ### Answer: If you received shares as part of a bonus you needed to pay income tax on the dollar valuse of those s...
Below is an instruction that describes a task. Write a response that appropriately completes the request. ### Question: On what time scales are stock support and resistance levels meaningful? ### Answer: Support and resistance only works as a self-fulfilling prophecy. If everyone trading that stock agrees there's a res...
Below is an instruction that describes a task. Write a response that appropriately completes the request. ### Question: On what time scales are stock support and resistance levels meaningful? ### Answer: Stock support and resistance levels mean that historically, there was "heavy" buying/selling at those levels. This s...
Below is an instruction that describes a task. Write a response that appropriately completes the request. ### Question: Do precious metals and mining sector index funds grow as much as the general stock market? ### Answer: Metals and Mining is an interesting special case for stocks. It's relationship to U.S. equity (S...
Below is an instruction that describes a task. Write a response that appropriately completes the request. ### Question: What is the fair value of a stock given the bid and ask prices? Is there such a relationship? ### Answer: None of the above. The fair value is a term used to describe an analytical result of projectin...
Below is an instruction that describes a task. Write a response that appropriately completes the request. ### Question: What is the fair value of a stock given the bid and ask prices? Is there such a relationship? ### Answer: Fair value can mean many different things depending on the context. And it has nothing to do w...
Below is an instruction that describes a task. Write a response that appropriately completes the request. ### Question: What is the fair value of a stock given the bid and ask prices? Is there such a relationship? ### Answer: If you need to show that the sale/purchase was at FMV, then showing that you made a trade on a...
Below is an instruction that describes a task. Write a response that appropriately completes the request. ### Question: I don't live in America. How can I buy IPO stock of newly listed companies in the United States? ### Answer: First thing to consider is that getting your hands on an IPO is very difficult unless you h...
Below is an instruction that describes a task. Write a response that appropriately completes the request. ### Question: Why did I lose 2 cents more than the difference in the stock prices on my Robinhood trade? ### Answer: Free, huh? From their Commission and Fee Schedule: So if you literally bought two shares, then t...
Below is an instruction that describes a task. Write a response that appropriately completes the request. ### Question: Why did I lose 2 cents more than the difference in the stock prices on my Robinhood trade? ### Answer: There is a misunderstanding somewhere that your question didn't illuminate. You should have lost ...
Below is an instruction that describes a task. Write a response that appropriately completes the request. ### Question: What are the common moving averages used in a “Golden Cross” stock evaluation? ### Answer: The 'standard' in such moving average crossover systems is 50/200. The numbers are essentially arbitrary as l...
Below is an instruction that describes a task. Write a response that appropriately completes the request. ### Question: What are the common moving averages used in a “Golden Cross” stock evaluation? ### Answer: Not sure why this hasn't received any answers yet... the link to the investopedia page you posted explains it...
Below is an instruction that describes a task. Write a response that appropriately completes the request. ### Question: What are the common moving averages used in a “Golden Cross” stock evaluation? ### Answer: Technical analysis is insufficient. You're halfway to figuring it out if you start to question why a 50 day m...
Below is an instruction that describes a task. Write a response that appropriately completes the request. ### Question: What are the common moving averages used in a “Golden Cross” stock evaluation? ### Answer: Different moving averages work and not work for different indexes. I have seen simulations where during bull...
Below is an instruction that describes a task. Write a response that appropriately completes the request. ### Question: Can I actually get a share of stock issued with a piece of paper anymore? ### Answer: Yes, indeed. For example, Ford Motor Company's website has a bit about them. Is there any advantage to having an ...
Below is an instruction that describes a task. Write a response that appropriately completes the request. ### Question: Can I actually get a share of stock issued with a piece of paper anymore? ### Answer: Yes you can get them from your broker. Two main advantages I can see are: ###end
Below is an instruction that describes a task. Write a response that appropriately completes the request. ### Question: Can I actually get a share of stock issued with a piece of paper anymore? ### Answer: Yes you can. One additional "advantage" of getting the physical certificate is you can use it to transfer your acc...
Below is an instruction that describes a task. Write a response that appropriately completes the request. ### Question: Is there a register that shows the companies with notifiable interest in a stock? ### Answer: There are multiple places where you can see this. Company house website On any financial news website, if...
Below is an instruction that describes a task. Write a response that appropriately completes the request. ### Question: Would selling significantly below market affect the value of a stock ### Answer: Assuming you are executing your order on a registered exchange by a registered broker, your order will be filled at the...
Below is an instruction that describes a task. Write a response that appropriately completes the request. ### Question: Would selling significantly below market affect the value of a stock ### Answer: That amount of shares is too low to create "ripples" in the market. Usually you don't specify the price to sell the sto...