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The NASDAQ site is a place where people can look for all their trading information on the stock market. It has stock reports, stock numbers and high/low charts.
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In almost every case (but not all) a NASDAQ listed stock is going to trade with a four letter stock symbol (or 5 in some cases). Examples would be Aaple ("AAPL"), Google ("GOOG"), and Answers Corporation ("ANSW"), these are all NASDAQ listed securities/stocks.
A stock symbol is given to a company whose stock is traded on the stock market. The symbols are all unique and vary from company to company.
In the case of symbols, the first letter will be capitalized. Other that than there is no general similarity and each element has different symbol.
One can find a page with all the world stock market prices on several sites such as: NASDAQ or NASDAQ OMX, but a site with a wider range and more detail better for information would be The Wall Street Journal.
NASDAQ is a computer based organization where all trading takes place on a computer. The NYSE is a physical place where the trading of stock really occurs.
The ticker symbol for the American Stock Exchange does not appear on NASDAQ's listing of symbols. The NYSE acquired AMEX, and AMEX is now known as NYSE Amex Equities. If you are referring to the symbol to denote which market all the other stocks are listed as belonging to, then that would be AMEX, at least on old listings.
There are many places one could find stock market charts. Sites such as eTrade, NASDAQ, Stock Charts, and Live Charts all have up to date information on the stock market.
A stock symbol, also referred to as a ticker symbol, is a unique alphabetic code that identifies a stock or security so that traders can identify it on the open market. The number of letters can vary from one to five depending on the stock exchange. Sometimes, an added symbol or letter(s) denotes a special characteristic or gives some additional information about the stock.Decide which stock exchange to useThe requirements for stock ticker symbols are different for all of the major stock exchanges. The New York Stock Exchange allows "root" symbols for stocks to consist of one to three letters, while the American Stock Exchange "root" symbols are always three letters. The NASDAQ exchange allows only four- or five-character "root" symbols that cannot contain an "x" as the fifth digit. This denotes special characteristics of or information about the stock. A stock's ticker symbol on one stock exchange would be completely different on another, so it is important to know both the company and the exchange.Stock ticker symbols for companies are available on websites, including these: http://finance.yahoo.com/lookup, http://www.marketwatch.com/tools/quotes/lookup.asp, http://www.nasdaq.com/asp/comlookup.asp?page=empty and http://moneycentral.msn.com/investor/common/find.asp Look for extra digitsCharacters or letters can denote many variables at the end of a stock ticker symbol, such as a stock's class, warrants, preferred status, bankruptcies and many other types of stock information. The symbols "+," "-" and"." also appear in combination with letters to denote specific information. It is imperative to study and learn the information symbols associated with a specific exchange in order to have access to the most detailed information possible.Stock symbols are valuable resources both for the experienced trader and the new investor. Stock symbols provide a great deal of information about the stock for those familiar with the meanings and special attribute codes for the various stock exchanges.
NASDAQ handled 471.2 billion shares--more share volume than all other major U.S. stock markets combined--and its listings' market value was nearly $2.9 trillion, a 470 percent increase over the last decade.
The Amex Stock Market, NASDAQ Stock Market, and New York Stock Exchange all close at 4pm ET, Monday through Friday. After Hours trading is from close to 6:30pm ET.