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  2. How to know when to sell a stock for a profit — or a loss - AOL

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    If you had owned stock in Barnes & Noble or Borders Group back then, you would have been wise to sell your shares ahead of the eventual downturn in the business. 4. Tax reasons.

  3. Wash sale - Wikipedia

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    The basis adjustment preserves the benefit of the disallowed loss; the holder receives that benefit on a future sale of the replacement stock. However, if the replacement shares are in a tax-advantaged account, such as an IRA, the disallowed loss cannot be added to the basis and there is no benefit for the loss. [15]

  4. Algorithmic trading - Wikipedia

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    The trader then executes a market order for the sale of the shares they wished to sell. Because the best bid price is the investor's artificial bid, a market maker fills the sale order at $20.10, allowing for a $.10 higher sale price per share. The trader subsequently cancels their limit order on the purchase he never had the intention of ...

  5. What are mutual funds? Your guide to professional portfolio ...

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    Buying and selling shares. Unlike stocks, mutual funds trade only once per trading day. You can buy more shares or sell your shares at the daily NAV price, and the fund executes your trades at the ...

  6. How to open a brokerage account: Step-by-step instructions - AOL

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    3. Fund your account. After opening an account, you’ll need to put money in it before you place any orders and start building your portfolio. Most likely, you’ll set up an electronic transfer ...

  7. Broker-dealer - Wikipedia

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    After announcing the price, the dealer must announce other essential conditions of the buy-sell contract of securities: minimum and maximum number of securities subject to purchase and/or sale, as well as the term of announced price's validity. Dealers perform all the functions of a stockbroker including financial consulting. They organize and ...

  8. Stock - Wikipedia

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    Short selling consists of an investor immediately selling borrowed shares and then buying them back when their price has gone down (called "covering"). [23] Essentially, such an investor bets [ 23 ] that the price of the shares will drop so that they can be bought back at the lower price and thus returned to the lender at a profit.

  9. 3 Reasons to Sell Berkshire Hathaway - AOL

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    Without further ado, here are three perfectly acceptable reasons you might consider selling your shares in the company Warren Buffett built. 1. You want more from your investments