Stock Resources
Quotation
- Historical Stock Quotes - BigCharts offers opening, closing, high, and low prices and volume information for the day and a 2 month daily chart centered around the historical quote date.
Brokers
Stock Indexes
Trading and Stock Exchanges
- The Big Bored: NYSE Traders Look for Diversions as Life Slows on Floor - This is a good article that shows how floor trading at the New York Stock Exchange has slowed considerably because of electronic trading. Most of the floor traders that remain now watch movies in the "Movies Room" or read books or play games between the busiest times at the opening and closing bell. The NYSE asserts that some floor traders are still needed to handle complex orders or that require a sophisticated response.
- NYSE Timeline - An excellent timeline about how trading has changed since the beginning of trading in New York City. This timeline centers mostly on the NYSE and is by the NYSE.
- Electronic Trading Creates a New Financial Landscape
- Fast Traders Are Scrutinized Amid Choppy Markets - According to this article, equity trading firms—who use high speed computers to trade up to a 1 billion shares per day—account for 40% - 70% of all trades and may have a large effect on prices, especially on volatile days. Some of their profit comes from incentives and rebates, which are offered by the exchanges for high volume business.
- BATS Exchange