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try http://www.pricewatch.com

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Is there a resource for accessing archives of bloomberg news? Basically, I want to look at every peice of news ran through the bloomberg terminals last week.

 

lol, yeah reading back it does..sorry about that. My intention was to look at it at the extreme case and remove the other factors. What I meant really was that if you could somehow determine which stock was most likely to move at that current time (or rather, is moving) out of all the...

Makes sense. Okay, so to further that, hypothetically, if you had a system capable of determining 100% that a stock is going to positively react very very soon to news (thus your comment on the large gaps would be relevant), how would you take advantage of that?

Sounds logical, but what I guess I'm wondering also is if there is all this sudden news (for this examples purpose, this occurs intraday and not at the end of the day/overnight), then the general public will jump on the bandwagon (either long or short), could you not get in right after the trend...

I have a newbie question. I've heard of several traders who trade on news. It seems to me that a news announcement(s) would drastically increase volume for that stock, which is why you would want to trade on news - it's going to do something. So, my question is, what is advantageous about...

How does one go about getting into quant research? What companies hire? Where do I look to get more info? I'm an undergrad and have just recently come across the field and it sounds very interesting to me.

Any oklahoma traders here?

"You may want to consider working a "second job" while learning how to trade. There are internship possibilities for College age people who want to trade." Where can I find out more about internship possibilities? I've seen them with larger brokers and financial institutions, but very rarely...

"3) Trade with IB in teeny tiny lots never risking more than a very small portion of your stake on any one trade." What does IB stand for?