Saw a television ad several years ago with fantastic art direction depicting the stock market as a circus or similar frenzy of colorful, somewhat frightening characters. Can anyone help me track it down? [more inside]
posted by drdanger on Oct 12, 2009 - 0 answers

Is there a stock market simulator that would let me "buy" stock at an arbitrary in the past and watch how that purchase would have affected my portfolio? [more inside]
posted by jefficator on Apr 19, 2009 - 4 answers

How do I, as a small investor in Canada, make a bet, (preferably leveraged) as to what interest rates are going to be in 5 years? [more inside]
posted by thenormshow on Apr 5, 2009 - 5 answers

Stock market related questions-- help me drown in data! [more inside]
posted by Static Vagabond on Dec 9, 2008 - 5 answers

What is the best way to attach newsprint to a dress to insure reasonable longevity? [more inside]
posted by thivaia on Oct 28, 2008 - 8 answers

Recommend any financial crisis blogs written by people who are following all the relevant indicators, or by people involved in the finance industry, who are trying to make sense of the market and economy?
posted by vizsla on Oct 9, 2008 - 12 answers

Stock market investment filter: Buying opportunities? [more inside]
posted by weapons-grade pandemonium on Oct 9, 2008 - 21 answers

On the Financial crisis: If the Canadian economy is in a stronger state than the American economy then why is the TSX posting larger point and percentage losses than the Dow and Nasdaq? [more inside]
posted by Toto_tot on Oct 6, 2008 - 10 answers

Should I pull my money out of the stock market? I'm pretty clueless. [more inside]
posted by metamush on Sep 16, 2008 - 29 answers

Anybody have experience in investing in virtual world banks/businesses/markets (such as those in SecondLife.com etc)? Do they provide a serious way of making a sensible risk/reward on five or six figure investments? [more inside]
posted by vizsla on Aug 12, 2008 - 22 answers

Is there anyone (especially online) who's collected reasonably well-informed stock picks from, say, 2, 5, or 15 years ago and explained why the recommendations did or did not work out? [more inside]
posted by ibmcginty on Jul 21, 2008 - 5 answers

What, if anything, is a "Target Retirement" fund like VTIVX missing? [more inside]
posted by selfnoise on Jun 30, 2008 - 4 answers

How should we handle liquidating assets in an estate in the USA right now? Assets consist primarily of a stock portfolio and a house. [more inside]
posted by anonymous on Jun 21, 2008 - 17 answers

InvestingFilter: Is there anything inherently flawed about investing in index funds? [more inside]
posted by reenum on Jun 18, 2008 - 24 answers

So, we're in a recession. At what point should we pull our investments out of the stock market? [more inside]
posted by raddevon on Apr 25, 2008 - 30 answers

Does anyone have any recommendations for any fantasy stock market games online? [more inside]
posted by Weebot on Mar 31, 2008 - 11 answers

How Can the Economy not Fail? Given the debt each of us owes (what, something like $150,000 each?), rising oil costs, cpi going up, infrastructure moved out, failed dollar, failing banks, etc. etc... [more inside]
posted by raikkohamilonso on Mar 22, 2008 - 32 answers

If the stock market were to completely crash this year, how would the effects differ from 1929? [more inside]
posted by raikkohamilonso on Jan 8, 2008 - 16 answers

With the US economy apparently getting ready to go 'foom!', a friend of mine has become very excited about silver as an investment. [more inside]
posted by anonymous on Dec 21, 2007 - 31 answers

I work for a world-wide electronics manufacturer--OEM, medical devices, design, test, etc. [more inside]
posted by wafaa on Nov 8, 2007 - 2 answers

Is there a good simulator for playing the stock market with imaginary money? [more inside]
posted by antipasta_explosion on Sep 23, 2007 - 11 answers

How can a non-programmer automate their stock market screening and timing process? (semi-long explanation inside.) [more inside]
posted by ScarletPumpernickel on Sep 18, 2007 - 13 answers

Help me leverage my ability to pick failing companies. [more inside]
posted by Ryvar on Jun 4, 2007 - 13 answers

Since the stock market is only active from 9:30-4 M-F, (less than 20% of the hours in the week, and even less of the year because of holidays), is it possible to sell at the end of the day and plop the money into a savings account, and then buy again on the beginning of the next day? If not, what prevents this from happening? Is it just fees? Would be an easy way to make an extra 4%/year from interest.
posted by tasty on May 27, 2007 - 17 answers

How ethical are Ethical Funds? After meeting with an SRI adviser and perusing the literature, I'm not so sure. [more inside]
posted by lindsey.nicole on May 20, 2007 - 19 answers

Help me pinpoint a day in the early 2000s. [more inside]
posted by daninnj on Jan 26, 2007 - 31 answers

Why do stock exchanges still close? It's nice for the traders to get some time off, but in this modern age where you no longer have to stand on the floor shouting at people, is it still necessary? Does it have some economic function?
posted by fvw on Oct 16, 2006 - 18 answers

I need a replacement for day trading program WizeTrade for my mother. Neither of us know anything about the day trading scene. [more inside]
posted by Brainy on Sep 26, 2006 - 8 answers

I'm seeking advice on and a short term investment strategy that won't offend Grandad. [more inside]
posted by godawful on Apr 25, 2006 - 41 answers

How easy is it for stockbrokers to manipulate the buy prices of shares on market orders placed through them? [more inside]
posted by megatherium on Mar 3, 2006 - 11 answers

I'm looking for a free or paid service that will allow me to connect to a TCP/IP port and request real-time option and stock quotes. [more inside]
posted by tkolar on Feb 10, 2006 - 11 answers

Stock market filter: Long vs. short. [more inside]
posted by weapons-grade pandemonium on Nov 7, 2005 - 29 answers

What would it take to start (in terms of licensing and registering) a "competitor" (in a very vague and loose sense of the word) to E*Trade? [more inside]
posted by Alt F4 on Oct 23, 2005 - 8 answers

I have a single share of AT&T from 1982. How much is it worth? [more inside]
posted by symphonik on Oct 17, 2005 - 6 answers

What are good FREE websites/sources for comprehensive stock market information and research? [more inside]
posted by jruckman on Sep 15, 2005 - 11 answers

I'm starting an investment club with my friends and have a few questions. [more inside]
posted by fletchmuy on May 24, 2005 - 9 answers

Does anyone know of a website where I can lookup a stock's GICS classification? There is plenty of information out there about GICS itself, but I have't been able to find anywhere I could simply enter a stock's symbol, and find it's classification.
posted by jruckman on May 6, 2005 - 3 answers

How does "after hours" stock trading work? Is it something a small time stockholder can take advantage of, or only for the big wheels? [more inside]
posted by aladfar on Jan 13, 2005 - 9 answers

I've saved a little bit of money and have decided to invest it in the stock market. I don't have alot to invest but it is certainly something I can and plan on building on.The question now is what online trader to go with. Any reccomendations for online traders with low minimum starting balances and good learning tools for beginners would be greatly appreciated.
posted by ttrendel on Nov 15, 2004 - 7 answers

Stock market filter: I'm not getting the answer i want from online glossaries that I've checked out. Can anyone give me a good layman's answer for a stock market beginner? When looking at a stock's price, what are the Bid price and Ask price and how do they relate to the "current price" of a stock. It seems simple, but there is some mental block preventing me from totally getting it, i think.
posted by Slimemonster on Sep 1, 2004 - 4 answers

The way I understand the stock market, prices go up when people are buying, and go down when people are selling. So what if I had a huge amount of money, bought tons of stocks and then sold them again instantly? Wouldn't I make a big profit? Or am I just completely wrong?
posted by reklaw on Jul 4, 2004 - 19 answers

I just graduated law school and have received a significant amount of money in graduation gifts. I'd like to "invest" the money in the market but I have no idea how to do that. I'd like to use online investment software that is very intuitive. Any suggestions?
posted by adrober on May 11, 2004 - 15 answers

What is the advantage of owning stock which has voting rights? These guys (the first 20 posts, specifically comment #17) imply that stock which has voting rights will trade at a premium. Furthermore, this Berkshire memo mentions that there will fluctuation and difference in supply and demand between two types of stock that have a constant valuation ratio despite having differing voting rights.

What is it about voting rights that would add or decrease value to a company's net worth? Most of the links I've checked seem to only confirm that yes, there is a difference.
posted by sleslie on May 3, 2004 - 3 answers

Stock quotes. No, not like "We don't need no steenkin' badges," the current price of a given stock. I need to put a little box on a page that will update (when refreshed) with current quotes for, say, five different specific stocks. This has got to be easy. Anybody got a free javascript lying around to do this? And if that's ridiculously simple, what about plotting the five specific stocks against each other over time?
posted by soyjoy on Dec 8, 2003 - 6 answers