Monday 24 June 2013

A Guide To Reading The Stock Ticker

By Jenny Taylor


If one is into playing stocks in the stock exchange, then he is probably already very familiar with the tool of the system known as the stock ticker. These tools are used because they are the ones that will give the players the necessary information about the companies that they are investing in or will invest in. Of course if one is a beginner, then the first thing he should learn is how to understand these kinds of devices because he will be making use of them the whole time.

Now there are many ways to find these tickers as they appear almost everywhere for the sake of the investors. One may find these tickers on the news channel, the internet, or even in the newspaper. Of course if one stands outside the stock exchange or even goes inside, he will see a group of tickers everywhere he goes.

Now when trying to understand or read this handy device, it is best to know of the parts first. The first part that would show up would usually be the company name which would usually be shortened into three letters. If one does not know which abbreviations represent the company, then he may find them out in the internet or in the papers.

Another part that the tickers would show would be the class of the stock. Now just to give an idea of how this works, there are two classes of stocks namely the class A type of stocks and the class B type of stocks. The difference between the two is simply that the owners of the class A ones have more and better voting rights than the ones who own the class B ones.

The updated prices of the stocks will also be shown inside the tickers. Now the first thing that the tickers would show is the lowest and the highest prices of the named companies as well as the opening prices. Now when the day has already ended, the device will also show the closing prices of the companies.

Now when it comes to the prices, there usually are symbols and colors that one must take note of. If the price of a certain company has gone up, then the text is usually in green and there is an upward arrow beside the company name. If the price has gone down, the font color is usually red and there is a downward arrow beside the company name instead.

Another thing that the ticker will flash would be the last number of shares that were sold for each company. Also, it would show the price at which these shares were sold. If for instance, a company sold fifteen thousand shares at twenty dollars, the device would show this information.

So if one would want to go into trading stocks, then he would need to make friends with the stock ticker. He must know how this device works in and out because he will be looking at it almost all the time. It is from this device that he will be getting valuable information.




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