>Here is likely the problem... You are looking at the stock after the markets
>have closed and you get these wild swings between the bid/ask prices.
>Never, never trade stocks after hours. There is way too much volitility for
>most folks to handle and unless you have a broker system that allows y
>> Ok, so it looks like I would have to pay 4.44 a share to buy? And if I
>> wanted
>> to sell, I would only get 3.01 a share? It seems like the stock would have
>> to
>> go up quite a bit before I even broke even. Is that correct?
>
>Typically you can put in a buy order to buy it when it hit
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Subject: Re: help with first stock trade.
> > Bid: 3.01 Ask: 4.44 Last: 3.46
> http://www.investopedia.com/articles/trading/121701.asp
Ok, so it looks like I would have to pay 4.44 a share to buy? And if I
wanted to sell, I would only get 3.01 a share? It seems
On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 9:08 AM, Matthew Smith wrote:
> Ok, so it looks like I would have to pay 4.44 a share to buy? And if I wanted
> to sell, I would only get 3.01 a share? It seems like the stock would have to
> go up quite a bit before I even broke even. Is that correct?
Typically you can
yup
On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 9:08 AM, Matthew Smith wrote:
>
>> > Bid: 3.01 Ask: 4.44 Last: 3.46
>
>> http://www.investopedia.com/articles/trading/121701.asp
>
> Ok, so it looks like I would have to pay 4.44 a share to buy? And if I
> wanted to sell, I would only get 3.01 a share? It seems li
> > Bid: 3.01 Ask: 4.44 Last: 3.46
> http://www.investopedia.com/articles/trading/121701.asp
Ok, so it looks like I would have to pay 4.44 a share to buy? And if I wanted
to sell, I would only get 3.01 a share? It seems like the stock would have to
go up quite a bit before I even broke eve
I remember when Adobe was trading at $16 and I said "gee I should buy
as much of that as I can", but I didn't. That was in March and it's
now trading at $30 a short 3 months later.
Arg.
-Cameron
On Thu, Jun 11, 2009 at 8:24 PM, Scott Raley wrote:
>
> This is why I got out of ameritrade and pay
This is why I got out of ameritrade and pay my Edward jones guy to do this
stuff for me. I remember when Macromedia purchased coldfusion and a couple
weeks later I get a check from ameritrade that my stock was sold.. No one
asked me or notified me...
-Original Message-
From: Matthew Smit
On Thu, Jun 11, 2009 at 8:06 PM, Matthew Smith wrote:
> So let's say I want to put $2000 into a stack that closed today at $3.46. I
> divided $2000 by 3.46 which gets me 578 shares. But when I put that many
> shares in, it shows the price to be $2,566.32.
>
> What gives?
>
> Bid: 3.01 Ask: 4.
