Archive for October, 2005

Buying Shares in Round Lots

Friday, October 28th, 2005

There are some advantages to buying round lots of shares (multiples of 100 shares), but they don’t apply to everyone. There could be limitations on odd lots (lots that are not multiples of 100)however. The broker might add 1/8 of a point to the price. Some limit orders might not be accepted for odd […]

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Wise Trading Decisions

Wednesday, October 5th, 2005

We’ve said on a number of occasions that it’s important to do your homework before making any trading decisions… including what type of system you might use, what company you might go with, etc. I found this web site that monitors more than 1,000 trading systems, newsletters and stock pickers and they track the […]

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