Watchlist

  

Categories: Regulations, Trading

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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into the system buying up stocks and contributing liquidity like they are [Investor money transfer to stock market]

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volumes they can get out quickly so they feel less hesitation about getting in

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quickly okay good just checking [Man shouting into megaphone]

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