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depends on a stock's float/outstanding shares to me... and what you consider a large position... if a company has so many shares.. what you consider a large position might not move the stock price much if at all.. give us a example of a stock you have and how many shares you have etc.. big institutional buyers/sellers like mutual funds try to do a few small trades at a time to mask what they are doing and as to not affect the price of the stock before everyone catches on.. they are called the AXE in daytrading jargon... now mutual funds seriously have large positions.. so like i said your definition of a large position compared to a mutual fund's large position most likely differs alot...
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I mainly trade Pink Sheets and OCTBB. What seems large to me might be small to a lot of you but it seems that when I place the order the bid and ask move.
One example that a lot of people are trading now is PLNI. I've been buying and selling it a few times, about a million shares at a time.
Most of the time I try to buy on the bid and sell on the ask to see if I get a nibble. If I don't get ma hit I move the other way until it goes.
Thanks for your help.
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Outstanding Shares: 1,440,486,371 as of 2004-11-15
Estimated Market Cap: Not Available Authorized Shares: 2,000,000,000 as of 2004-11-15 Number of Shareholders of Record: 693 as of 2004-11-15
Current Capital Change: shs increased by 8 for 1 split Ex-Date: 2004-02-11 Record Date: 2004-01-30 Pay Date: 2004-02-10
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somewhere between 5 million to 30 million is a more suitable number.. a stock is more likely to move more and faster under those conditions... i used to like over 25 million but i have since rethought that...
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man, u gotta see the volune of the day. If u have a large block, what i found to be easy is to sell in increments. thas the only way i can be filled to sell
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quote:Originally posted by kanalgeruch: scottrade and lowtrades dont let me put stop loss orders on pennies. How are you all dealing with this?
I heard that choicetrade does let you do that. Is this actually correct?
Yes it is correct about Choicetrade... ive repeated that they allow stop/losses on pennies (that includes stocks under $5 per share in Amex, NYSE, Nasdaq, OTCBB and Pinksheets) several times already on this board but people dont seem to believe me lol .. my reputation speaks for itself on this Forum/Board... you can ask others about me here in General Investing or in HotStocks Forum to clarify what I say...
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no u didnt.. it's just that i keep repeating myself on this topic dozens of times in the last month.. anyways u didnt upset me.. and yes they do take stop/losses for stocks under $1 in all exchanges... how far down under $1 i dont know.. i trade in the .50 range.. but i'll try lower sooner or later...
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quote:Originally posted by xeo: Sorry for jumping in your thread. I have question.
When talking about volume, what do you mean by floating and shares outstanding? How important of a factor it is?
Thank you very much.
xeo
Nothing to apologize about. this is a public forum and your welcomed to ask questions as long as you do not mention Qbid lol jkk...
anyways shares outstanding/float is important because in any stock you want liquidity to fill your stock positions whether buying or selling. If there are no buyers then you can't sell and vice versa. So you want the S.O./float to be high enough to be able to buy/sell without problem but you also want it to be high enough so the stock moves in price to make you a profit. but not so high that it takes alot of buying and selling to get the stock to move in price ala Qbid (yeah i said it lol )Qbid has such a high float/shares outstanding (in the billions if i remember right not going to look it up because i hate that stock) that it takes so many shares to be bought and sold to just move it a point. While a stock like say Microsoft has a decent enough share/float that it moves constantly up in price several points sometimes.. to me a good float/shares is between 5 million and let's say 100 million? ... but it's different for everyone.. it's a matter of preference i suppose... also the liquidity i mentioned before is because if a stock is tanking but there are not enough buyers when you need to get out of a position well you know what can happen LoL ... .. hope this answers your question... also have a volume of no less then 500,000 on average...
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I find almost everything i need at smallcapcenter.com ... if not i look for missing information on other sites to complement it... gotta love today... MIVT went up 15.38% ... take a look at it.. might interest you though its in overbought territory right now.. but i got my stop/loss locked in for a profit if it goes down... i'm starting a new thread on stop/losses.. feel free to contribute so others learn...
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