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Stock quotes are the information about the price of stock at a particular time. They are displayed
either as fractions or decimals. Stock quotes provide most valuable information about stock and
stock market changes. They are also the primary tool for traders to execute trade. Quotes are also
available for other derivatives like futures, options, forex currencies etc.
Stock quotes can be grouped into various types as historical stock quotes, delayed stock quotes
and real-time stock quotes. Historical stock quotes are stock prices and change patterns before
certain period of time - useful to understand and determine periodical stock trends. Delayed stock
quotes are usually free stock quotes provided by various institutions, journals, portals, etc. which
have 15 or 20 minutes delay. They are useful for most stock market investors and small scale
traders. Real-time stock quotes, also known as live stock quotes or streaming stock quotes, are
provided by specialized quote sites and through stock market trading systems with less than a
minute delay. Live streaming stock quotes are vital for online day traders trading according to very
small changes in stock prices.
The presentation of stock quotes can vary greatly, they may be graphs with values, simple line of
phrase with alphabets and decimals, or tables showing values. Similarly stock quote presentation
of different sources may also vary from single 'last price' value to full details including the price
change of the day, the trading range of the day, 52 week (one year) range, the volume traded, the
average volume of trade, market capitalization, earnings per share (EPS), dividend yield, P/E ratio,
closing price, highest price of the day, and lowest price of the day.
By theory, a stock has a set of stock quotes as bid price and ask price. The bid price is the price
which market makers or specialists are ready to pay for the stock and ask price is the price at
which the market maker is ready to sell the stock. The difference between the ask and the bid
price is the spread, which is mainly responsible for liquidity in low priced stocks. The need of ask
and bid prices in a stock quote is purely because the market need a market maker to buy the stock
whenever one trader sells it and to sell the stock whenever on want to buy it.
A stock trader can find stock quotes from a variety of resources. Free delayed stock quotes are
available from newspapers, journals, company websites, stock market, market maker and stock
broker websites, popular search engines and portals like Yahoo! Finance and MSN Money, and
various financial websites. As told earlier real-time stock quotes are paid services. These services
also provide timely alerts and triggers to automate and better execute traders, and are integrated
with powerful mathematical and visual tools to formulate right trading strategies. Recently Google
and CNBC have presented their readiness to provide free real-time stock quotes of NYSE stocks
to SEC, which if come true will be an added benefit to all type of traders.
Praveen Ortec works for NobleTrading.com, an online investing broker offering live streaming
stock quotes on different
online stock trading software.
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