Archive for the ‘Trivia’ Category

"No one gets out of here alive!" - I think we're all familiar with the statement. At one point, all of us will die. But, one might think, "what will happen to my stocks when I die? Can they be part of my will? And who takes them if I have no...

While writing an article yesterday on how much money you can make with stocks, I was trying to calculate how much money a day trader makes per year provided he makes 0.75% of his investment every trading day, so I needed to know how many trading days...

October 24, 2011 | In: Trivia

What Is CNN Stock Ticker?

CNN is one of the largest news channel in the US, and most likely the largest in the world. Since CNN is that important, it must have needed investors' money in order to expand, and thus it must be a public company, and thus it must have a stock ticker....

October 13, 2011 | In: Trivia

What Is the Most Traded Stock?

Following my little post on the most traded ETF, I was curious to know which stock is the most traded one on the US market. Well, immediately I suspected SPY simply because a volume of almost 300 millions shares/day is a lot (there are smaller mature...

October 6, 2011 | In: Trivia

What Is the Most Traded ETF?

In my article on the definition of a spider, I mentioned that I wanted to know whether SPY was the most traded ETF or not. Well, I did my investigation and here's the list of top 5 most traded ETFs: - SPY (SPDR S&P 500): Average volume of 296.83...

I remember during the first months when I first started trading stocks, I woke up one day and logged in to my account on my broker's website, and I saw that C was so delicious at around $3.80 (that was before they did the reverse split). I placed the...

September 30, 2011 | In: Trivia

When Was the NASDAQ Created?

While writing an article yesterday on the difference between the NASDAQ composite and the NASDAQ 100 indexes I thought of something. When was the NASDAQ actually created? And who created it? And why is NASDAQ called NASDAQ? So I did a research to find...

September 9, 2011 | In: Trivia

How Much Does a Gold Bar Weigh?

With all the current fever about gold, I was thinking, what if I bought a gold bar (those gold bars used in reserve banks that we see either on the news or in movies where thieves try to steal the chest at a federal bank) when gold used to trade at...

There are many stocks that don't experience any volume activity on a trading day. A recent example of a stock with no trading activity is EAGL. That stock didn't experience any activity neither on Friday nor on Monday. Take a look at the Google chart...

Now that AIB is shown as having a zero dollar value on Google Finance, I thought that an appropriate question for many investors would be, "what will happen when a stock hits a zero"? Let me answer this question... When a company issues shares to be...

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