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Finance: What does Most Active mean? 1 Views
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Most active stocks aren't the ones excelling in Couch to 5K...so what are they? Hit play to find out.
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- 00:00
finance a la shmoop what does most active mean all right people there's a
- 00:07
race every day all the stocks in all the markets line up at the starting line [stock lining up for track race]
- 00:12
then at 9:30 a.m. New York time blam gun goes off and well the stocks are off [gun fires]
- 00:18
running one trade between a buyer and a seller is a laugh and all the stocks run
- 00:24
those laps as best as they can at the end of the day italia is made and the [stock running laps]
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- 00:28
winner with the most laps gets put into that day's pantheon of most active [stock tally]
- 00:34
stocks the list looks something like this yes there are winners and there are [stock list document]
- 00:39
losers sorry there Polka masters calm just keeping it real so what usually [Tesla wins race, Polkamaster.com loses]
- 00:44
makes a stock most active well a bunch of things a quarterly earnings
- 00:48
announcement that surprises on the upside or the down or an announcement of
- 00:52
a secondary offering of stock or a hostile takeover bid by a competitor or
- 00:57
goog or a mention on Oprah yeah that usually helps or steroids yeah they help
- 01:02
too but they're not legal unless you know you're on the russian biathlon team [pills, Russian skier]
- 01:06
yeah so yeah the most active stocks are these guys like Charlie Sheen and Trump
- 01:11
they're all about the winning yeah winning
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