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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...

Well, 2011 is almost over, there is now less than 3 months until 2012, so the title of the article should have been "What were the hottest stocks in 2011?"... In any case, here's what I think the hottest stocks in 2011 (note that a hot stock does not...

October 11, 2011 | In: General

Why Buy Stocks With No Dividend?

Often, new investors think why would anyone buy stocks that pay no dividends? After all, dividends are how you can make money out of stocks, no? Well, dividends are one way that you can make money out of stocks, there are other ways, mainly selling stocks...

It seems that Mark Zuckerberg keeps on delaying the Facebook IPO, the last time I checked he said it's going to take place sometime in 2012. His argument is that Facebook is not ready for an IPO, his real argument is that the whole world is going through...

We use the phone every day, we use it for our business, we use it to call our family, we use it complain about something, etc... It's hard to see phone companies disappear, after all, we have used the phone for over a century now, and we will probably use...

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...

Some investors believe that the NASDAQ composite index is the same as the NASDAQ 100 index. So are these investors right, and if there is a difference, what is it? To answer the first question, these investors are wrong, the NASDAQ composite is...

When I first started trading stocks, I shrugged when I heard the term spider. I had no idea what it was, and yet I felt ashamed to ask my friends because it seemed to be something taught to investors in "trading stocks 101". In any case, I did my...