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 Ticker tape -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Stock ticker machines are an ancestor of the modern (Click link for more info and facts about computer printer) computer printer, being one of the first applications of transmitting text over a wire to a printing device.
One of the earliest pratical stock ticker machines, Universal Stock Ticker developed by (United States inventor; inventions included the phonograph and incandescent electric light and the microphone and the Kinetoscope (1847-1931)) Thomas Edison in 1870, had an alphanumeric printing speed of approximately 1 character per second.
Stock ticker machines became obsolete in the (The decade from 1960 to 1969) 1960s, replaced by ((computer science) a network of computers) computer networks; none have been manufactured for use for decades.
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/t/ti/ticker_tape.htm   (385 words)

  
 Stock Ticker - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Stock Ticker is a now out of print board game that was popular upon its release and is still played today.
Since the dice rolling system moves stocks by a fixed amount rather than a percentage of their value these stocks are very volatile.
While this stock could move down by ten or twenty and be wiped out the most one would lose is a thousand dollars.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Stock_Ticker   (570 words)

  
 Ticker tape - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
One of the earliest practical stock ticker machines, Universal Stock Ticker developed by Thomas Edison in 1870, had an alphanumeric printing speed of approximately 1 character per second.
Ticker tape parades generally celebrated some significant event, such as the end of a World War, or the safe return of one of the early astronauts.
Simulated ticker displays, named after the original machines, still exist as part of the display of television news channels and on some World Wide Web pages—see news ticker.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ticker_tape   (442 words)

  
 A Breakdown of the Stock Ticker
Stock prices are too long to write out the full name of each company so an abbreviated letter symbol is assigned to each company.
Ticker symbols are offered in colors to give you a quick idea of which way your investment is going during the trading day.
Stock prices are currently quoted in fractions----1/2, 1/4, 3/8, 3/16---but this will change to the decimal system of dollars and cents beginning in 2002.
www.brookestephens.com /n_bso_art_stkticker.html   (747 words)

  
 Ticker Login   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Ticker — Using Passport to set up your Ticker ensures that your configuration stays with you across different computer platforms and browsers — without relying on a cookie.
An individual stock is subjected to the evaluation techniques of each of these nine methodologies and a percentage score is calculated for each, depending upon how well the stock matches the criteria of the methodology — the higher the percent score, the better the fit.
Because cookies reside on the user's machine, this option is recommended for those using the same machine and browser combination to accesses the application and where security concerns are less important.
ticker.nasdaq.com /reference/TickerNewLogin.stm   (465 words)

  
 Stock Ticker
The symbol of the stock, a comma, then either a 't' for the Toronto Stock Exchange or a 'v' for the TSX Venture Exchange.
One ticker displays the names of the stocks along with the change and present value.
The symbol ticker is quicker, because the names are longer than the symbols.
www.telenium.ca /stockticker.html   (242 words)

  
 Stock Exchanges - Ticker Tape Terminology   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Every stock traded on the world's stock exchanges is identified by a short symbol.
Ticker symbols are still used today as brief, unambiguous identifiers for stocks.
A few stock ticker symbols include a suffix, which seems to differentiate among a company's various classes of common stock.
www.getfolio.com /learn_investing_stock1/ticker_tape.asp   (569 words)

  
 THE STOCK TICKER
That which the ubiquitous stock ticker has done is to give instantaneity to the news of what the stock market is doing, so that at every minute, thousands of miles apart, brokers, investors, and gamblers may learn the exact conditions.
Callahan stated, with rather grudging praise, that "a ticker at the present time (1901) would be considered as impracticable and unsalable if it were not provided with a unison device," and he goes on to remark: "The first unison on stock tickers was one used on the Laws printer.
In New York the two great stock exchanges have deemed it necessary to own and operate a stock-ticker service for the sole benefit of their members; and down to the present moment the process of improvement has gone on, impelled by the increasing volume of business to be reported.
www.globusz.com /ebooks/Edison/00000018.htm   (6044 words)

  
 What do all of the letters in a stock option ticker symbol mean?   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
The option ticker explains four main things about the option: the underlying stock, whether it is a call or a put option, the expiration month and the strike price.
The second part of the option ticker is the expiration date and the call or put classification of the option, and it consists of a single letter.
Be warned that in the event of stock restructurings, like 5 for 7 stock splits or mergers, there may be no way to use the codes above to find out information about the option.
www.investopedia.com /ask/answers/05/052505.asp   (577 words)

  
 IEEEVM: The Stock Ticker
Edison’s improved 1871 stock ticker, the Universal, became a standard Western Union ticker and was used as late as the 1930s to report sporting events.
A ticker tape parade thrown in New York City’s Canyon of Heroes (the financial district) for the Apollo 11 astronauts.
Soon, brokers and many businesspeople kept tickers in their offices, and the machines spat out strips of tape during hours in which the stock exchanges were open.
www.ieee-virtual-museum.org /collection/tech.php?taid=&id=2345867&lid=1   (597 words)

  
 Stock trading and charting software
Historical stock quotes are downloaded in a plain text format and are compatible with the most charting and technical analysis software packages.
Stock Sector Monitor is a personal financial application that allows you instantly watch over 200 stock industry sector groups and track over 7000 public companies.
It is simple news ticker that resides at the top or the bottom of your screen and displays news headlines from Yahoo or MSN in a form of a scrolling message.
www.ashkon.com   (595 words)

  
 USATODAY.com - USA TODAY Stock Meter helps you evaluate stocks   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Stock Meter is designed to help you decide whether a stock fits your investment goals and risk tolerance.
Stock Meter scores for the 30 blue-chip stocks in the Dow Jones industrial average, for example, range from Altria Group's (formerly Philip Morris) conservative 1.3 to the more aggressive 2.8 of Disney, Hewlett-Packard and Microsoft.
If you don't know the stock's ticker symbol, enter the company's name in the box, then click on the appropriate symbol when it appears.
www.usatoday.com /money/markets/2003-03-20-stock-meter_x.htm   (353 words)

  
 Globeinvestor.com: Help - Stock Ticker
Each quote from globeinvestor.com features the latest price for a particular stock or value for a particular index at a given time.
When entering a symbol, you are encouraged to type in an exchange or an index code in order to isolate a single security or index.
Returns calculations reflect all stock splits and are based on simple capital appreciation.
www.globeinvestor.com /resources/help/help_stockticker_gi.html   (264 words)

  
 MagicTicker - Stock Ticker (BETA)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Stock entry is now done through the configuration or portfolio screens.
A click on a stock in the ticker will bring up a technical report about that stock.
This is done by displaying a green "B" or a red "S" on top of the arrow when the stock is sending a buy or sell signal based upon the moving average that you select.
www.magicticker.com /beta   (985 words)

  
 TickerTech.com - Home
Ticker Technologies Inc. is a leading provider of information delivery and presentation solutions to web, Intranet, and Extranet sites.
Through our partnerships with various stock exchanges and content providers, we are able to offer turn-key software products to corporate clients, charging one ongoing licensing fee which covers both the software and the content license.
Multiple stocks and indices can be charted together on the same graph, by price or percent change, using line, point, bar, or candle stick type charts.
www.javaticker.com   (513 words)

  
 MSN Money - Market Report: Stock Ticker
Another rebound in chip stocks and software has helped Tech inch closer to break even while Financial trades near its best levels of the day, benefiting from an afternoon turnaround in Citigroup (C 46.63 +0.20), the most influential of the sector's 84 components.
Decliners on the NYSE, which earlier held a more than 3 to 1 margin over advancers, have seen their advantage narrow to a 19 to 12 edge, while declining issues on the Nasdaq, which at one point enjoyed a 2 to 1 margin over advancing issues, now hold a 17 to 11 lead.
With the major indices averaging a 3.5% advance over the last two weeks, broad-based consolidation efforts, amid concern that the outlook for earnings growth is already reflected in stock prices at current levels, are acting as the biggest restraining factor.
news.moneycentral.msn.com /briefing/StockTicker.asp   (2087 words)

  
 Msn Stock Market Ticker Report   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Finding the Right Stock Market Report by first either subscribing to a service that is free, or finding a free stock report is the best way I've found to determine whether or not the advise coming from the publisher is of value.
Many of the publishers of stock market reports don't trade their own accounts, which isn't necessaraly bad....because they can devote all their time analyzing the stock market as well as individual stocks....
For a free stock market report that many savvy traders look at every monday morning you may want to take at this Free STock Market Report Jeffrey puts a lot of time into making sure his reports are accurate.
www.freestockmarketreport.com /MsnStockMarketTickerReport   (1704 words)

  
 Stock ticker software - real time ECN quotes
Stock Ticker Application Bar is a software designed for continuous retrieval of stock quotes through the Internet.
It is simple stock ticker that resides at the top or the bottom of your screen and displays real-time ECN quotes, including premarket and after hours quotes or 20 minutes delayed quotes of predefined list of stocks, indices and currency symbols as a scrolling message.
This ticker displays quotes for up to 200 securities, automatically or manually updates stock prices, has user defined positioning, scrolling speed, fonts selection; includes top and bottom stock price visual and sound alerts.
www.ashkon.com /ts.html   (192 words)

  
 USATODAY.com - How to get a stock or mutual fund quote   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
If you know the ticker symbol of the stock or mutual fund, enter it, and you will be sent to a full quote page when you hit Go or Enter.
If the first word of a company's name turns out to be another company's ticker symbol, you may get a quote for that company instead of the one you are looking for.
SUN is the ticker symbol of Sunoco Inc., so you will get a quote page for Sunoco.
www.usatoday.com /money/search-tips.htm   (533 words)

  
 Daily Stock Picks and Investor Advice - StockPicks.com
Stock Picks is dedicated to empowering investors with concise daily stock picks of publicly traded securities backed by indepth financial commentary and informative trading notes.
Stock Picks is a leading on-line resource of information for institutional and individual investors featuring access to real-time trading tips and stock notes via your email before each trading day begins.
For every stock and investment tip Stock Picks delivers to you each day, we give you the power and the knowledge to make your own successful investment decisions in the stock trading world.
www.stockpicks.com   (796 words)

  
 Stock Ticker
Personal Stock Monitor Gold, named Best Business Application of 1999 by the Shareware Industry Awards Foundation, is an investment tool that uses the Internet to give you live continuously updated quotes, charts and news headlines on your desktop for FREE.
Stocks can be organized in several portfolios that display more than twenty data items on each stock (last, bid, ask, volume, etc.).
After selecting the stocks of interests and optionally typing in the buy and sell price, the users can launch the ticker at the corner of their monitor screen.
www.window95.com /internet/ticker.html   (746 words)

  
 Stock Market Ticker Replica   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
This replica of the 1909 electric machine that was used to print the daily quotations of the stock market transactions on a paper ribbon.
This ribbon is polularly known as a ticker tape.
The original ticker tape could print 500 characters per minute and transaction information could be telegraphed via ticker tape to offices around the country within five minutes after an order had been placed on the stock exchange in New York.
www.halcyon.com /www3/donace/TICKER.HTM   (200 words)

  
 TickerTech.com Ticker Product Line - Stock Ticker, News Ticker, Sports Ticker, Custom Ticker, Customizable Scrolling ...
All of the server-side components of the ticker are hosted and run on our end, so you have no server-side setup to worry about, and there is no additional load on your servers.
Combining the ticker with our Integrable Content products, which include a full news stories package, allows users to click through on the ticker headlines to receive the full news story while remaining within your site.
Combining the ticker with our Integrable Content products, which include a full sports package, allows users to click through on the ticker headlines to receive the full news story while remaining within your site.
www.tickertech.com /products/tickers   (630 words)

  
 MSN Money - Personal finance, money, online banking, retirement planning, taxes, message boards
U.S. stocks declined on Tuesday after leading home builder Toll Brothers Inc. gave a disappointing outlook for next year, raising concern that the housing sector, an important driver of economic growth, may be slowing.
Stock pick: Analyst lauds Landstar, CB Richard Ellis
Another rebound in chip stocks and software has helped Tech inch closer to break even while Financial trades near its best levels of the day,...
moneycentral.msn.com   (314 words)

  
 The Internet Stock Blog » InternetStockBlog
Comcast (ticker: CMCSA) COO Steve Burke discussed Comcast’s roll-out of voice-over-IP telephony on the company’s November 3rd conference call.
But according to the analyst the Shanghai stock market index was strong during Q3 and the company’s results were still weak.
Priceline (ticker: PCLN) CEO Jeffry Boyd explained on his Q3 earnings conference call how Priceline’s European business — particularly Central Europe — is growing faster than its other businesses.
www.internetstockblog.com   (1883 words)

  
 phpBB.com :: View topic - [BETA] Stock Ticker v1.0.0 Add-On
Also stock prices in the ticker will be of different colors depending on whether they have increase/decrease/stay the same.
Messages related to the stock will also be displayed in the stock ticker.
So the next time when the stock prices are updated, these risk values will be applied to to stock prices.
www.phpbb.com /phpBB/viewtopic.php?t=204683   (988 words)

  
 "Q" Added To Stock Ticker Symbol   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
When a company is involved in bankruptcy proceedings, the letter "Q" is added to the end of the company's stock ticker symbol.
When a company emerges from bankruptcy, in most cases the plan of reorganization will cancel the existing equity stock.
Accordingly, be sure to read a company's proposed plan of reorganization before purchasing stock in a bankrupt company.
www.sec.gov /answers/qadded.htm   (77 words)

  
 Stock Ticker Program
You then need to interpret that stock information and format it into an HTML page which is then returned to the user.
For this, you must write an extended cgi script that can create the new account, ensure unique user names, and store the account information in either a flat ASCII file or by using functions in the Storable module.
Any request for stock data that does not contain a valid cookie should be answered with an error page that also allows the user to enter a different login or create a new account.
web.cs.wpi.edu /~frontier/e03/fqp/stockTicker.html   (564 words)

  
 Free Stock Ticker
The free stock ticker is easy to use and full of great features.
TickerTape is a small and simple stock ticker that displays your favorite symbols as well as their latest value.
Once the stock ticker has been downloaded and installed, it can be customized in color and placed anywhere on your desktop.
www.enetsc.com /FreeStockTicker.htm   (315 words)

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