How to understand the stock quotes

Question

How to understand the stock quotes?i would like to know what is the best way to understand what stock quotes are and which one is for which company please help.

Answer 1

If you don't understand them, stock quotes are remarkably disorienting, full of mysterious numbers, symbols and acronyms. The truth is, you don't have to be financial genius to make sense of them, or any kind of genius at all. All that is required is a commitment to learning the basics and practicing for a period of time prior to investing with real cash. This page offers a guide to understanding how to read the stock market for the new investor.

Don't be ashamed if you can't understand stock quotes, you have plenty of company outside the investment community. Those inscrutable little figures and abbreviations are based on a system that conveyed stock market changes via telegraph, printed out on a thin strip of paper called ticker tape. Modern stock quotes appear in somewhat expanded form in newspapers and online, while the basic ticker-tape format still lives on on your TV (running across the bottom of the screen on financial channels like Bloomberg Television), and on the giant displays posted outside financial institutions.