Active Stocks

  

So, you’ve got two best friends. One friend is always on the move. The other friend sits on his or her butt all day with little activity. It’s safe to say that one friend is active and the other is a lazya**.

This is how we want you to remember active stocks. These are stocks that are on the move and in heavy demand with traders. These are also stocks that have a ton of outstanding shares (shares that can be bought). There is also a list of most active stocks, which means just that: the stocks that were on the move the most over a measurable amount of time.

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Finance: What does Most Active mean?1 Views

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finance a la shmoop what does most active mean all right people there's a

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race every day all the stocks in all the markets line up at the starting line [stock lining up for track race]

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then at 9:30 a.m. New York time blam gun goes off and well the stocks are off [gun fires]

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running one trade between a buyer and a seller is a laugh and all the stocks run

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those laps as best as they can at the end of the day italia is made and the [stock running laps]

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winner with the most laps gets put into that day's pantheon of most active [stock tally]

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stocks the list looks something like this yes there are winners and there are [stock list document]

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losers sorry there Polka masters calm just keeping it real so what usually [Tesla wins race, Polkamaster.com loses]

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makes a stock most active well a bunch of things a quarterly earnings

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announcement that surprises on the upside or the down or an announcement of

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a secondary offering of stock or a hostile takeover bid by a competitor or

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goog or a mention on Oprah yeah that usually helps or steroids yeah they help

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too but they're not legal unless you know you're on the russian biathlon team [pills, Russian skier]

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yeah so yeah the most active stocks are these guys like Charlie Sheen and Trump

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they're all about the winning yeah winning

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