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Q: Insider transaction stock charts?
insider stock charts?
anyone know how to find a stock charts contained “insider transactions” like this one
http://www.marketwatch.com/charts/big.chart?style=1038&size=3&sid=9951&symb=CYBX&arrowdates=7/1/2008:0~2000,6/30/2008:0~11934,&uf=16384&startdate=6/20/2008&enddate=7/11/2008&arrowlegend=d:ff0000~Insiders(s)+Sold,u:00ff00~Bought&freq=1&rand=340328454
but with more options (size,date)

thx
sorry,
i meant a free web service

A: Barrons Magazine is free at the library. It has the info you seek. I can’t find any online with a Yahoo search..

Q: Where Can I get free stock charting software with 5 ~ 10 days 1 min intraday data ?
Or where to open a brokerage account can provide this services ?
I use Interactivebrokers . But 1 min charting only show 1 Day .
If can show >5 days , 1min bar charting , delay data ok , for me will be big help in stock research ~
Thanks Help ~

A: Scottrade and Ameritrade have solid streamers

stockcharts.com is my fav TA chart but updates are slow

Q: Can someone give me the closing price for May Company stock on June 23, 1997?
This stock is no longer listed on any stock exchange. It was merged with Federated. Its ticker symbol used to be MAY. All the historical databases I could find(Yahoo Finance, Big Charts and Silicon Investor) either do not recognize the symbol or do not have the information in their historical charts. I might be able to find it in the Daily Stock Price Record(book) or on the CRSP/wrds site from Wharton, but I have access to neither. I need it for determining the cost basis for my tax return.

A: YOU HAVE NOT PAID THE TAXES FOR 1997 YET?

Q: If its true that insurance companies make profits “at will”, why does United Health’s stock chart look so bad?
In another question a leftist asserted that insurance companies rape, pillage and take advantage of the little people so much that they are able to make record profits at will. If that’s true, why does the attached two year chart of big insurer United Health look so bad? That chart would suggest to me that UNH has had some earnings hiccups and by golly is subject to market forces that hurt its profits. I might be wasting my time, I doubt leftists understand stock charts and/or market forces.

http://finance.yahoo.com/q/bc?s=UNH&t=2y&l=on&z=m&q=l&c=
LOL… questions like these are really unfair to leftists. All they can do is respond with sound bites, since the facts have already been disposed of.

A: Class warfare attack on insurance and capitalism…Like insurance companies have no competition so government will be competitor. Only one thing missing from that arguement, there is competition amonst the insurance idustry itself. There is no way to argue in favor of a socialistic society without class warfare so, buyer beware.

Q: Does anyone know the value of TXU corp stock on 12/14/1997.?
If you know what the stock value was as of that day can you also provide me with where your “stock quote” came from. I have looked on yahoo finance and big charts.
Thanks

A: Texas Utilities Company changed its name to TXU Corp. TXU Corp. was renamed Energy Future Holdings Corp. on October 10, 2007. De-listed from the NYSE.

Kohlberg Kravis Roberts, Texas Pacific Group and Goldman Sachs purchased EFH, formerly known as TXU Corp., for $45 billion as part of the largest leveraged buyout in history.

In May 2000, Texas Utilities Company changed its corporate name to TXU
Corp. TXU Corp. is a Texas corporation which was formed in 1997 as a holding company. TXU Corp. is the successor to TXU Energy Industries Company (TEI), the holding company for the TXU system prior to the August 5, 1997 acquisition of TXU Gas Company. TEI was organized in 1945.

Aggregate market value of Texas Utilities Company Common Stock based on the last reported sale price on the composite tape on
February 28, 1997: $9,064,605,462

Common Stock outstanding at February 28, 1997: Texas Utilities Company -
224,602,557 shares

For free this is a tough nut to crack! Two suggestions:

1. Contact Bill Huber
Manager, Investor Relations
214.812.2480

2. Contact your local librarian who can access microfilm of Wall Street Journal

Q: How often do P/E Ratio and Earnigs Per Share ratio change?
When you look on Big charts or Yahoo finance do these numbers chance daily or every time the stock changes price or do they adjust quarterly?

A: The quoted PE’s on most of these sites change when the price of the stock changes. some update less, and may only change every hour.

In general, the numerator of the P/E changes with each trade that has a different price from the previous trade.

For a trailing twelve months quote, the P/E’s denominator will change each time the company reports earnings (quarterly). For a forward P/E, this is typically every time a particular analyst updates his/her earnings forecasts.

EDIT: Now that I think about it, Thor is correct about P/E updating with price. With a forward P/E, this changes when the analyst updates his/her target price, not earnings estimates. Although I do both when I’m researching a company. But then again, I rarely look at P/E ratios unless I’m just trying to confirm what I already think.

Q: I happened across an investing site that charted stocks alongside rss/atom feeds. Which one was it?
I believe it would have the stocks with the biggest changes with the corresponding feed item on its front page, as well. I’d love to find it again.

A: Not sure whether it is the same, but in Google Finance
http://finance.google.com/finance?q=MMM
expand the zoom how much of the graph you see and you will see on the right side all the headlines for the company and on the left a chart pointing at point in time the news articles were issued. Really cool for relating news breakups to price chart movements.

Q: Can I tell who is buying and selling stock on nasdaq?
When I see a big spike in volume on a chart, is there any way to tell if that was one big seller who threw a big order to lots of little fish as opposed to one big buyer who suddenly came in and grabbed holdings from dozens of little sellers? Are stock transactions hidden from public view or can I get that info in realtime or even a few days later?

I want the info just to be able to consider volume to price ratios when looking at price fluctuations.

A: You used to see who is buying and selling with a level 2 real-time trading platform, when the bid/ask spread was in fractions. At that time you could see the market makers line up on the bid or ask and see the buying pressure or selling pressure.
It is almost impossible to see that now because the average trader got wise to that play and when the bid/ask was changed to pennies it leveled the playing field, making it more difficult to actually see who is buying and who is selling. Also, there are Electronic Networks [ECN]’s that market makers can use to hide their identity.
Under image in Google type in level 2 and you can see what a level 2 screen looks like. I think cost of level 2 quotes is around $250.00/month.
Brokers and market makers accumulate their stock over time scaling in and out to hide their identity. What you are looking for is exactly what they are hiding.

Good Luck,

Q: On the chart for ryn it starts the day around 35$… why?
I don’t understand a lot about stock charts and am curious to know why it started so low today? It then skyrocketed back to the normal price of around 46. Was there some sort of “big transaction or something?” It has been doing very well, so what is with this?

A: I think you are right. Looks somebody dumped a lot of shares quickly. This is a pretty thinly traded stock(not much volume) and any big transaction could move the stock. The average daily volume has almost traded today already. Also this is options expiration. My guess the range has something to do with that. Some funny things happen during options expiration.

Q: What caused the major economic recession in America?
Can you list the 3 biggest factors of the recession?

And a side question…when one looks at a stock chart…the graph is not a straight line, rather a “spiked line”. Why is that?

A: I copied this from http://www.millionaireacts.com/432/what-caused-the-recession.html.

What i got out of it was, that peoples eyes were bigger that their pocketbooks, they bought a bunch of stuff they couldn’t afford. Then they got into major debt that they couldn’t pay off. so they stopped spending money. As for the side question i think its because the stock doesnt receive a constant stream of info. it just updated every couple of hours. Its like connect the dots. Hope this helps.

We are now living in one of the worst global financial crisis. This is proven by the fact that a lot of economies are going into recession and trillions of stock values were wiped out. Aside from these, a lot of companies have reduced their earnings with a lot of plant closures and job lay offs.
We often hear the word recession. We’ve watched news that Singapore, Germany, Japan, and New Zealand officially declared recession in their economies. But what is recession? And what caused it?
Recession, in economics, is defined as the contraction of an economy’s Gross Domestic Product for at least two consecutive quarters. That means the economy shrank.
We all know that the world’s largest economy is that of the United States. A lot of countries depend on them most especially countries which depend on export products. There’s this popular saying that “when United States sneezes, everybody catches a cold”. This is so true nowadays which is evident in the domino effect of the global financial crisis with a lot of economies caught colds.
What caused the recession? The problem started in the United States with the so-called Subprime Mortgage Crisis. The crisis was triggered by the rise in mortgage delinquencies leading to foreclosure of houses and ultimately a credit crunch leading to a freeze in liquidity.
Subprime Mortgage are mortgages given to high default risk credit borrowers. A lot of mortgages issued in US are called subprime which means that little or no downpayment was made by the borrowers to buy houses, cars, etc. Some credit were even given to low income families or with bad credit history. Because of the nature of these mortgages, a lot of borrowers defaulted on their loans which led to banks foreclosing securities of these loans including houses, cars, etc.
All these accumulated and led to the “credit squeeze”. There were no more cash available to other borrowers as all these cash were frozen to foreclosed houses with no willing buyers. The tightening of credit led to a slow down of the economy as there were no more loans available to other borrowers which they can probably use as capital in their businesses. Now, this led to a series of events:

Low Demand. Because of the tightening of credit, there was a slow demand of products of these businesses.

Decrease of Profits. Because of low demand, then there was a decrease in profits for these businesses.
Plant Closures. Because of decrease of profits, then companies need to shut down some of their plants to reduce costs. There was also a notable increase in bankruptcy filings.
Job Lay Offs. Because of plant closures and bankruptcy filings, then companies laid off a lot of their employees and unemployment rate rose.
Stock Market Decline. All these series of events led to the rampant fear of stock investors dumping their stocks which led to tremendous wipe outs of stock values.
The United States and other countries are all doing their best to combat this financial crisis by using different strategies including the recent US$700 Billion bail out plan to increase liquidity in the economy. US Treasury is providing millions and billions of loans to ailing companies to sustain this financial crisis and prevent further recessionof other economies.
The current recession have caused some companies to succumb and declare bankruptcy. Two of these companies include Six Flags, the world’s largest theme park and CIT Group, the American commercial and finance company.

Q: Which online stock broker is the cheapest for a long-term investor in Canada?
I just make less than 30 trades per quarter but the volume would be over 1000 shares. I am in Canada and want to invest in Toronto and New York stock market. I just know “E*trade Canada” up till now.

I wonder:
1, which is the cheapest reliable online broker according to my situation? (Few trade and big volume)
2, is there any services and fee comparison chart for all those online brokers?
Thanks

A: Zecco…

Zecco Review: The Cheapest Online Stock Trading Brokers

http://www.stock-investment-made-easy.com/zecco-review-the-cheapest-online-stock-trading-brokers.html

Q: big discrepancy in stock price history?
take a look at TRP TransCanada Corporation (NYSE):

On the Yahoo chart, price per share in Jan 1998 was about $12:

http://finance.yahoo.com/echarts?s=TRP#chart1:symbol=trp;range=my;indicator=volume;charttype=line;crosshair=on;ohlcvalues=0;logscale=on;source=undefined

But on the Google chart, the price per share in Jan 1998 was about $22.

http://finance.google.com/finance?q=TRP

That’s a large difference.

There was a $7.237 dividend in July 1998. Could that be related?

http://finance.yahoo.com/q/hp?s=TRP&a=11&b=30&c=1987&d=11&e=25&f=1999&g=m

A: I don’t know what’s going on, but Big Charts (http://bigcharts.marketwatch.com/quickchart/quickchart.asp?symb=trp&sid=0&o_symb=trp&freq=2&time=20) agrees with Google, not Yahoo. And none of the other services lists a $7.237 dividend at that point.

Anyway, that’s a pretty weird dividend for a company that normally only sends out $0.30 quarterly, wouldn’t you say?

If you’re really curious, you could dig back into TRP’s yearly reports or its SEC filings. If not, I’d say go with Google and Big Charts and ignore kooky Yahoo.

And congrats if you bought the stock in 2000. It’s nearly quadrupled in value in the last eight years.

Q: What would you do right now with your stock of CTIC if you were in my situation?
CTIC Cell Therapeutics, Inc

I bought 5,700 shares of CTIC for 1.76/share last week and since the price of the share has been steadily declining in value. The stock is down right now -34% from its 6 month high that it had established last week. My own investment in the stock is down about -22% since last week when I bought it at $1.76/share. Looking at the 6 month charts I notice that there have been a couple big jumps in the stocks price which have been accompanied by large declines. However the overall direction of the stock is pointing steaply upward.

Is it advisable to hold onto the stock and wait for it to cover my losses or should I stop the bleeding right now and pull my stock out and take a -22% loss?

or is it advisable to buy more shares of this stock at the lower price so if the stock does go back up I can cover my losses quicker and perhaps even get a bigger gain?

What would you do right now?

1. take a -22% loss on $10,000

2. Buy more stock at the lower price so you can cover your losses faster if the price of stock goes back up

3. Do nothing and hope the price goes back up at some point in the next week or next few months

A: probably nothing at this point, when you buy any stock be it speculative, for a trade, or for investment determine sell points both up and down BEFORE you buy.

on a spec play like this, no earnings, I could not stomach more than down 15%, keep that in mind next time 22% losses are tough to recover from

another thing don’t buy a full position in one trade, for this kind of thing buy 2000 shares in 3 trades.

MACD slightly below signal line so you’ll be enduring a bit more pain before whatever

best of luck

buy ABT and/or TEVA in this sector and sleep nights!

Q: How to read bigcharts ??????????/?
Some people says big chart can tell you up, down trend means time to buy, sell … can you please explain me with example of any stock so i can understand..???

A: Try: www.StockConsultant.com…. all along the right side are links to ” tutorials”.

Q: Why big discrepancy between JNJ close shown for 10/19/67 on chart vs in tab of daily prices?
Question has to do with stock price history for Johnson and Johnson after accounting for stock splits. The example is only one of others I have found.

A: Going back 41 years is a bit much for researching a stock. Many of the folks back then are probably not even with us today. It could have even been a typo.

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