Finance & Investment Investment Business Stock Quotes - a Brief Account


by PRAVEEN ORTEC - Date: 2007-04-17 - Word Count: 427 Share This!

Sock quotes offer essential statistics about every stock traded in various stock exchanges; is extremely vital for technical analysis and stock picking. They are accessed from a variety of sources and are displayed as decimals or fractions. Stock quotes are significant for all types of stock traders and are the chief tool for carrying out trades. Except for stocks, quotes are also available for forex, options and future contracts. In early days, it was very tough to get instant stock quotes but the development and evolution of very fast communication methods made the same so easy today.

We can classify stock quotes into three distinct groups based on the time interval after which we receive the actual market information. The three groups are 1) historical stock quotes, 2) delayed stock quotes and 3) steaming or real-time stock quotes. Historical quotes supply information of stock price patters and change trends for a specific time range in that stock's trading history. They may be free or paid on provided by some devoted financial establishments or brokerage firms on request. Historical quotes are valuable for all types of traders, especially trend and momentum traders, to find stock market trends and trend change patters and cycles.

Delayed stock quotes, like the name suggest, have a small delay of 15 minutes or so. They are usually free and can find on a variety of information resources like portals of search engines and financial organizations, company and stock market websites, journals and newspapers, television and radio channels, etc. Free stock quotes may also be available as e-mail and SMS feeds. The representation of the quotes and the information contained in them may vary according to the quote provider, and the information through portals as graphs and tables is considered superior in this sense.

Streaming or live or real-time stock quotes are powerful information deliveries with less than a minute delay. They are not usually free; may be free if you satisfy some specific requirements. Streaming stock quotes are provided by quote sites through stock market trading systems from stock brokers. These systems will be enriched with powerful visualization tools to highlight even small price changes. Stock trading systems may also have triggers and alerts to automate the trading procedure. As streaming stock quotes provides most updated information usually for all possible criteria involved in technical analysis. They are vital for day traders who traded against very small price changes.

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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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