A list of securities that someone—us as investors, a brokerage firm, the SEC, etc.—wants to keep an extra-close eye on.
Maybe there’s been some unusual trading activity of late. Maybe the SEC suspects that some firms are engaged in shady shenanigans. Maybe a company is seen as a potential takeover target. Or maybe we just like those securities’ style and want to check them out as potential investment opportunities.
Whatever the reason, when a list of securities is put together and then watched, we in the financial community call that a watch list.
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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]
then at 9:30 a.m. New York time blam gun goes off and well the stocks are off [gun fires]
running one trade between a buyer and a seller is a laugh and all the stocks run
those laps as best as they can at the end of the day italia is made and the [stock running laps]
winner with the most laps gets put into that day's pantheon of most active [stock tally]
stocks the list looks something like this yes there are winners and there are [stock list document]
losers sorry there Polka masters calm just keeping it real so what usually [Tesla wins race, Polkamaster.com loses]
makes a stock most active well a bunch of things a quarterly earnings
announcement that surprises on the upside or the down or an announcement of
a secondary offering of stock or a hostile takeover bid by a competitor or
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yeah so yeah the most active stocks are these guys like Charlie Sheen and Trump
they're all about the winning yeah winning
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Trading volume is the number of shares trading back and forth at a given time.