Some years ago, when QP (and TC2K and others had in the neightborhood of 8000 stocks in their systems (call it the dot-com bubble) I saw an article that said there were about 25000 stocks in the USA - which included OTC, "UTC" (under the counter), ADRS and all of the other suspects you listed except I guess warrants and ETFs w(hich no one had heard of since they didn't exisst and would have been called mutual funds anyway. There still were some listings that traded at local exchanges only (Philly, Cincinnati or wherever).
As I recall there were about 13,000 or 18,000 funds of all types still registered locally in one state or another. I knew that since people were always telling me picking a mutual fund was so easy because there were so few of them. Remember, a lot of them were registered but trading locally or nearly never. For example, I knew of a bank in Fredrick, Maryland that was an "UTC" stock. The bank itself maintained a list of people wanting to buy or sell and would put these people in touch for a deal. It did exist somewhere on the pink sheets - but trading was likely in the 100s of shares a month. They said some months "never". The bank actually had reasonable profit numbers, too. I think someone eventually merged them out of existance. I suspect the number is lower in proportion today. > Thanks Dale and Gary. I was just interested in stocks listed in > major exchanges and it all checks out. About 2,000 at NYSE, 3,000 at > NASDAQ and remaining at AMEX. > > > Shak > > > --- In [email protected], "garylyb" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> That sounds about right for common stocks only. >> >> That doesn't include preferred's, warrants etf's etc. >> >> Gary >> >> >> --- In [email protected], "shak458956" <khawar_shakeel@> >> wrote: >> > >> > I am getting 5,426 stocks from QP scan. Is that all? Or should I >> > adjust the query? I always thought there were at least 10,000 >> publicly >> > traded companies in US markets. >> > >> > >> > Shak >> > >> > > > >
