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Actually, you're right, the question is even more pointed if the underlying stocks are not traded at all during the time period that the ETF traded (such as ETFs of foreign stocks). Then you have the same question, but it is even clearer: - Suppose you have an ETF of Asian stocks, and the...

It didn't seem to answer the question, because he was just talking about the ETF price changing in proportion to the change in the underlying stock. However, in my example, I was proposing a gap up in the underlying stock at the same time as large transaction in the ETF's stock that was in...

Instead, why not a ouija board where you contact the spiritis of Wall Street traders who jumped out of their windows in 1929 ?

You can't call the question pointless if you don't know the answer. If you prefer, take the same example, and change the percentage of Toyota to 3%, but the question still holds - is the ETF priced by the underlying or priced by the trades in the ETF ?

I was wondering how exactly ETF's are priced on a minute-by-minute basis... Here is an example. Suppose there is a fictional ETF that consists of all Auto Manufacturing Stocks, with 30% of the ETF being Toyota. And suppose this ETF is traded on the Amex, and that the total float of the...

If that's for real, then that answers my perennial question - "What is the source of the money that is won by traders who are consistently beating the market ? " For example, every one of your statements about the business of BRLC was factually incorrect (probably because they were copied...

Okay, you have now revealed yourself to be one of two possibilities: 1) Ignorant 2) Short Basher Syntax-Brillian has lower costs than Sony, Sharp or Samsung - they cannot be undercut. This is the mainstay of their business model. The televisions were rated Top Buys in the most recent...

So you are suggesting that Target and Circuit City don't pay their bills ? That's where their revenue and receivables comes from...

It's a TV show. I've been on a TV show myself and everything is planned out in advance. Dozens of people work on a TV show. So, if someone is going to be a guest on a TV show, there are dozens of people who need to know about it in order to do their jobs. The person who leaked the...

Actually, I agree about the analysts in general, but I cited that merely to give an indication of where the stock is likely to go. The problem with charts is that they can only tell you about data that is contained in the charts, nothing else. That data is all previous trades of the stock...

The average analyst 1y target is 14.17 . The company is small now, and could be much bigger in a few years. I bought DISH in the late 90's, and within a few years, it had gone up 1600%. I'd hate to have sold it after a 10% gain. PS One thing that the charts won't tell you is that many big...

Buying stocks because of patterns on charts is what is silly. The BRLC CEO is on Cramer right now. PS You are referring to the legalities, I was just referring to the effect of the shorting on the stock price, and whether or not there is a short squeeze. The number of shares short on...

It doesn't matter - the show is airing right now - in 50 minutes, the rumor will either be known as true or false.

Unless I am missing something, naked shorts cannot be "squeezed". Since they did not borrow the stock to begin with, there is nothing that is going to force them to cover. If someone "naked shorts" 100 shares at $8, they make $800 profit. Buying the stock has nothing to do with it - only...

Hi ! What software or web site can show charts of stocks that are P/E vs Time, rather than Price vs Time ? Of course, it doesn't need to be real time (the value would be looking at it over longer periods). BTW, I am currently using IB's TWS to trade.

Nice picture, but note that recent scientific research shows proven health benefits from eating fish due to fish oil, which is due to its omega3 fatty acids. (This is easily verified by a web search if you've not already read that.) The substance that has the highest concentration of omega3...

What happened there is they both purchased a few days before they announced a new mining operation had begun. The stock went up 10% due to that announcement. (If there are shorts, it is because of the inherent difficulties and risks of mining in Africa.) By the way, remember that insiders...

BTW, you can find this information for a particular stock in the normal Yahoo quote information. For example, you can find the 100,000 share purchase by Petrohawk CEO Floyd Wilson at: http://finance.yahoo.com/q/it?s=HK (Yahoo Finance uses a surprisingly human readable link: q for quote...

Insider selling is less well correlated to stock performance than insider buying. The reason is that insider buying is always because the insider thinks the stock is going up. Why would they want to lose money ? They could be wrong, but the theory is that they have "insider knowledge" and...

That's a pretty funny one ! No, two pretty funny ones !! Both points easily proved false by March 21, 2007 2:15 pm Eastern Time.