What is a stock market ticker?
By: Anne Durrell
The original Stock Market Ticker was a primitive electronic device that received information and printed it out on a thin ribbon of paper, called a ticker tape. This allowed brokers who were not at the exchange to follow the market and work by phone with accurate up to date information.
Some Stock Market Ticker will also provide new and information about the market, especially if something exciting is happening. There is so much trading that goes on in today's markets that the stock price listed for any given company is likely to change at least a little each time it comes around again on the ticker.
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Some tickers are truly running in real time, but most have a certain amount of delay. If you want the actual up to date numbers, usually you have to pay a fee. Unless you are day trading where you need to buy and sell quickly throughout the day, it is not necessary for most investors to have the exact real time prices.
A third popular option is to set up a ticker with stocks from a specific area that you are interested in, like tech stocks for example, or oil companies. Or car companies, if you like watching numbers sinking fast!
Either way, the Stock Market Ticker can be a useful investing tool. It does not provide any sort of detailed information. Its job is to let you know quickly that something has changed. Then you will be alerted and can search for more information from other new sources to find out what has caused a stock to go up or down. By studying your investments for a while with this close scrutiny, you will learn a lot about how the market works. And that will make you a better, more successful investor.
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