At a given time, the information that is received about the price of a stock is known as
stock quote. Represented as fractions or decimals, stock quote is a great source of information about a particular stock. It also gives information on the changes taking place in the stock market. Traders use this tool while carrying out stock trading in the stock market. The major types of stock quotes are as follows:
Delayed stock quotes
Historical stock quotes
Real-time stock quotes
The delayed stock quotes can be had for free with a delay of fifteen to twenty minutes. Small scale traders and stock market investors gain big time from this quote. Historical stock quotes are the prices and change pattern of stocks prices over and before a period of time. This quote helps in understanding the trends of different stocks. Also known as streaming stock quotes or live stock quotes, the real time stock quotes are provided by trading systems of the stock market with a delay of less than a minute.
The stock quotes are presented as stock quote charts, graphs, tables and other such types. The various data represented in a stock quote are as follows:
- The change of price of a stock on a day
- Value of last price of the stock
- Trading range of the year
- Trading range of the day
- Average volume of trade
- Total volume of trade
- Earnings per share
- Market capitalization
- P/E ratio
- Dividend yield
- Lowest price of the day
- Highest price of the day
- Closing price
The market makers sell the stock at the ask price and purchase a stock at the bid price. The spread is the difference between these two prices. These are all parts of a stock quote. Stock market quotes can be received from the following sites:
- The NASDAQ Stock Market
- Yahoo! Finance
- Quote.com
- PC Quote Online
- CNN/Money
- ADVFN
- INO.com
- Reuters.com
- Eoddata.com
- Barchart.com