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Shares of stock traded in a stock market. Equities represent the residual claim or interest of the most junior class of investors in assets, after all liabilities are paid.

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What is a good reason to accumulate a stock that is going to be delisted?

This is a type of corporate takeover strategy--a tender offer in this particular instance. Tender offers can fall into the hostile or friendly category depending on the percentage of the shareholders …
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How do stock watch firms know who is buying and selling stocks before it is announced publicly?

This may seem obvious but, this is how: Party A (People with well-established relationships with prime brokerage ("PB") directors within PB's) gather information from Party B (PB directors or higher …
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List of ticker-symbols of European countries

Have your friend give this Python library a try for you: pytickersymbols. It specifically exists to return ticker symbols. I have not used it extensively-only a brief test using the code below (whic …
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Why SPY gaining value overnight?

Next, I created series for daily value change. Series is Close - Open for each day between 2010.1.1 - 2017.1.1 I ran a sum() for my daily change for this time periods. It's sum of all dai …
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Why is stock futures price much lower than spot?

Can this be explained by an extraordinary demand for hedging spot positions via shorting futures? The answer to your question is: kind of but there is more to it. Out of curiosity I looked int …
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call vs put open interest

In general, it seem like there are more open interest for call rather than for put, is there a reason people like to write more call? In general, it is easier for most people to justify a bet o …
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% Drawdown on Stock Portfolio to hit Margin Call

At a 43% draw your excess liquidity hits zero and you get a margin call. Cash = -400,000 (400k margin loan) Securities = 571,428.60 @ ~43% drawdown Net Liquidation Value = 174,428.57 (Cash + Securi …
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Pull IDX stocks with alphavantage?

Just swap in your API key below. Keep in mind that they are priced in Indonesian Rupiah's. For Indonesia you need to use the Jakarta exchange symbol: AALI: https://www.alphavantage.co/query?functio …
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Using AlphaVantage For Japan/Shanghai/Hong Kong/Shenzhen stock exchange data?

All of the examples just got tested. They all work for me with my API key. Just swap in your API key below, and you should be all set. For Tokyo: Sony: https://www.alphavantage.co/query?function=T …
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Buying shares of NASDAQ listed companies on the NYSE

Since NYSE merged with ARCA about 10 years ago. No specific legislation. All stocks may be traded on ECN's as well as their primary markets. The line that distinguishes them nowadays is quite obscu …
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Efficient computing of stock returns taking dividends into account

There are two ways of dealing with this: If you want to keep it all in Python, converting all of your dates in both DataFrames to ISO 8601 format, extracting the week number, and using that week numb …
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Does Adjusted Closing Price take account the Expense Ratio?

You don't have to back out the expense ratio manually. The expenses are deducted from the ETF NAV and baked into the price of the ETFs. From the link below: You won't find them on your account state …
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Are there open source or academic-only limit order book data sets available?

Here are a few links that may have the data you are looking for: awesomeopensource.com has many open source projects. You could probably find some data there. This Github repo has some data. Only 3 le …
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Continuous Percentage Profit and Loss calculation

There is more than one way to approach this. Given your comment that this is a small strategy in a larger account, I assume that you are testing it and, if it bears enough fruit, you may want to scale …
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